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Interstellar Crashes Could Toss Out Habitable PlanetsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2011 Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn. The astronomers, who publish their model in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, find that forming planetary systems may be knocked around by crashes with nearby clumps of material, leading to systems where planets have highly inclined orbits and where the smaller (and pote ... read more |
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 Avoiding An Ape-pocalypse This is a story about how a mob of intelligent, institutionalized, drugged-up apes organize to overthrow their human oppressors and ignite a planetary revolt. But enough about my graduate school day ... more | .. |
  NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm. This, along with melting glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, drives sea levels higher over the long term. For the pa ... more | .. |
 TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been busy measuring rainfall within Hurricane Irene, and forecasts call for between 5 and 10 inches in the southeastern and central Bahamas and ... more | .. |
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  Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say i ... more | .. |
  Robonaut successfully passes first test on ISS The first human-like robot and permanent resident of the International Space Station, Robonaut 2 or R2, has successfully passed its first test, the official Robonaut`s microblog reported on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Space Station Crew Enjoys Eye-Level View of Perseid Meteor Shower With the bright moon that was out on the evening of August 13, many astronomy buffs were not able to fully appreciate the spectacular Perseid meteor shower going on in the night sky. From the Intern ... more | .. |
  Draper Spacesuit Could Keep NASA Astronauts Stable, Healthier in Space Draper Laboratory began work this month on a new spacesuit that could keep NASA astronauts healthy during long-duration space exploration missions and stabilize them while they work in microgravity. ... more |
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  NRL Set to Launch Experimental TacSat-4 Spacecraft The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex, Tuesday, September 27, 2011, aboard an Orbital ... more | .. |
 Recent grad's astro feats regarded as research crown 'joule' Look out, Richard Dean Anderson. There's a new MacGyver in town. His name is 2nd Lt. Michael Trubilla, and a prestigious award is in the 2011 Air Force Academy grad's very near future: Trubilla is s ... more | .. |
 Elbit To Supply Asian Countries with Electro-Optical Payloads for Maritime Applications Elbit Systems Ltd.has been awarded contracts by several customers in Asia to supply many dozens of observation systems for maritime patrol aircraft, vessels and observation towers. The total value o ... more | .. |
  Russia delays Bulava missile test launch Russia's test launch of its new Bulava intercontinental missile was delayed due to a malfunction on the nuclear submarine supposed to fire it, an official said on Sunday. ... more |
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  Taiwan to develop precision-guided missile Taiwan plans to develop a long-distance precision-guided missile which would be able to strike military bases along China's southeastern coastline in the event of war, a legislator said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Model shows polar ice caps can recover from warmer climate-induced melting A growing body of recent research indicates that, in Earth's warming climate, there is no "tipping point," or threshold warm temperature, beyond which polar sea ice cannot recover if temperatures co ... more | .. |
  Russia grounds rockets after launch failure Russia on Tuesday grounded its workhorse Proton-M rockets after the latest in a string of launch mishaps put a prized telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit. ... more | .. |
  International team to use Hubble Space Telescope to answer key astronomy questions An international team of scientists led by the University of Exeter is aiming to answer some of the biggest questions facing astronomy today. The team has secured a large programme of nearly 200 hou ... more |
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Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method
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  Russian, European space agencies to team up for Mars mission With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip ... more | .. |
  Giant Space Blob Glows from Within Observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope have shed light on the power source of a rare vast cloud of glowing gas in the early Universe. The observations show for the first time that this giant " ... more | .. |
  MSU, UR launch satellite from Russia A Russian Dnepr rocket roared out of a silo launcher into space carrying a satellite with hardware designed and built at Morehead State University. The rocket launched from Yasny, Russia, on the Kaz ... more | .. |
 Glorious Perseids The summer's best meteor shower peaked on the weekend of Aug. 12-13. Even though the Perseids were hampered by a bright, full moon they were something to behold! The Perseids have been observe ... more |
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 Chinese scientists come up with plan to save Earth from asteroid hit A group of Chinese scientists have proposed using a solar sail to prevent the possible collision of Apophis, a 46 million ton asteroid, with the Earth in 2036. The asteroid, which is 270 meter ... more | .. |
 Russian Progress space freighter set to undock from ISS Progress M-11M space freighter will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to be buried in the Pacific after conducting a nine-day scientific mission, Russia's Mission Control ... more | .. |
 NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigat ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10-nicknamed Snow White-is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice ... more |
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 Fewer stars as universe runs low on gas: study Australian scientists gazing billions of years back in time with powerful radio telescopes on Monday warned that the universe's lights - the stars - were quite literally running out of gas. ... more | .. |
  Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy In The Third Dimension Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude - particularly in mountainous areas. The softwar ... more | .. |
 New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diame ... more | .. |
 New method could provide early warning of dangerous solar flares Viewed from the technological perspective of modern humans, the sun is a seething cauldron of disruptive influences that can wreak havoc on communication systems, air travel, power grids and satelli ... more |
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  Missing satellite found off designated orbit The Russian Express-AM4 communication satellite, missing after Thursday's launch, could not separate from the booster and was found off the designated orbit, a source in the Russian space program sa ... more | .. |
  Chinese orbiter launch failure will not affect unmanned space module launch The launch of a Chinese unmanned space module, the Tiangong-1, will not be affected by the failed launch of an experimental orbiter on Thursday, an expert said Friday. Qi Faren, a chief design ... more | .. |
 Russian Federal Mission Express-AM4 Anomaly Investigation Underway On 18 August, at 3:25 a.m., a Proton Breeze M vehicle carrying the Express-AM4 satellite launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Proton M launch vehicle performed nominally, a ... more | .. |
 Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters' An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar syste ... more |
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