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Is a new form of life really so alien?La Jolla CA (SPX) May 09, 2012 The idea of discovering a new form of life has not only excited astronomers and astrobiologists for decades, but also the wider public. The notion that we are the only example of a successful life form in the galaxy has, for many, seemed like an unlikely statistic, as we discover more and more habitable planetary bodies and hear yet more evidence of life's ability to survive in extreme conditions. A new essay, published May 8 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, examines what really co ... read more |
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  Antarctic stay to mimic Mars mission European scientists said they'll undergo four months of freezing darkness and isolation in Antarctica in preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the detection is a historic ste ... more | .. |
  Subaru Telescope Discovers the Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Jun Toshikawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and ... more | .. |
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  UW Professor Creates Large Infrared Camera to Study History of the Universe Michael Pierce plans to study the history of the cosmos - going back 10 billion years - with an infrared camera it took him seven years to create. The University of Wyoming physics and astronomy ass ... more | .. |
 Honing in on supernova origins Type Ia supernovae are important stellar phenomena, used to measure the expansion of the universe. But astronomers know embarrassingly little about the stars they come from and how the explosions ha ... more | .. |
 Rogue Stars Ejected from the Galaxy are Found in Intergalactic Space It's very difficult to knock a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the main mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes involves t ... more | .. |
 Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope could seem like a quiet patch of sky at first glance. But zooming into the central part of a galaxy cluster - one of the largest structures of the ... more |
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 Theskynet Set To Conquer More Of Our Universe In its ever-expanding quest to process astronomy data and discover much more of our universe, theSkyNet has joined forces with the Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC) to probe other galaxies beyo ... more | .. |
 Science Nugget: Lightning Signature Could Help Reveal the Solar System's Origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to create a beating pulse between t ... more | .. |
  Queen's scientists discover black hole ripping apart star Astronomers from Queen's University Belfast have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. The Queen's astronomers are part of the ... more | .. |
 Subaru-Led Team Discovers a Rare Stellar Disk of Quartz Dust A research team of Japanese astronomers led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara (Subaru Telescope) has discovered a main-sequence star that is surrounded by a rare disk of quartz dust. Collisions of planetesima ... more |
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 One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They're bright enough to see across large d ... more | .. |
  Throwing pebbles to divert asteroid? A swarm of pebble-sized spacecraft could deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, if launched early enough, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Japan's Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Tuesday it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several languages. ... more | .. |
  Putin takes back Russia's nuclear button: report Russia's newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin Monday was handed the black suitcase Monday that controls the country's vast nuclear arsenal moments after taking his oath to a third term. ... more |
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Earth-Based 3D Printing Technology Offers New Path to Affordable Housing in Australia
Drones measure wastewater treatment plants greenhouse emissions at greater levels than official estimates
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  Climatic effects of a solar minimum An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Rese ... more | .. |
 Looking for Earths by looking for Jupiters In the search for Earth-like planets, it is helpful to look for clues and patterns that can help scientist narrow down the types of systems where potentially habitable planets are likely to be disco ... more | .. |
 Some giant planets in other systems most likely to be alone Hot Jupiter-type planets are most likely to be alone in their systems, according to research by a University of Florida astronomer and others. "Hot Jupiters" are giant planets beyond our solar ... more | .. |
  Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our moon. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image w ... more |
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  Next Galileo satellites to launch after the summer The European Commission has announced the launch date of the next pair of ESA-procured Galileo satellites. These will be launched together on a Soyuz from French Guiana on 28 September, joining the ... more | .. |
 First light: NIST researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way of producing light pulses that are "superluminal"-in some sense they travel faster than the speed ... more | .. |
 Four white dwarf stars caught in the act of consuming 'earth-like' exoplanets University of Warwick astrophysicists have pinpointed four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once bore striking similarities to the composition of the Earth. ... more | .. |
  Dancing Droplets Rock Out On Space Station Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles by using everyday objects on the International Sp ... more |
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  MESSENGER's Cameras Capture 100,000th Image from Mercury Orbit This week, MESSENGER's Mercury Dual Imaging System delivered the 100,000th image of Mercury since the spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet on March 18, 2011. The instrument - one of ... more | .. |
  Second AEHF Military Communications Satellite Launched The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) military communication satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched Friday from Cape Canaveral A ... more | .. |
 Agni-V - a ticket to the Club An Interview with Dr. Raja Mohan of the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India. b>What does the successful test of Agni-V signify for India? /b> I think the Agni-V test is a p ... more | .. |
  US to conduct 'largest ever' missile defense test - Pentagon The US plans to conduct 'the largest ever test launch' of its missile defense program elements to intercept and destroy five 'enemy' missiles- three medium-range ballistic missiles and two cruise mi ... more |
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  SpaceX Launch Targeted for May 19 Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday targeted May 19 for the launch of its upcoming demonstration mission to the International Space Station. This follows ... more | .. |
Air Force launches 2nd advanced satellite The 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicle here Friday from launch pad 41 at 2:42 p.m. A ... more | .. |
 A trio of Ariane 5 launchers are now at the Spaceport Arianespace's ability to support the sustained launch pace for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 is being demonstrated once again as vehicles for the next three missions are now together in French Guiana. ... more | .. |
 Mars Express - Former lakes and rivers in Acidalia Planitia The images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), carried on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft and operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), ... more |
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