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Why SETI CountsSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 04, 2012 Are we alone in the universe? It's probably the greatest question posed by space exploration. It fascinates scientists and the general public. It's important and deeply compelling. We want to know, and we have ways of finding out. It doesn't cost much to operate a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program. Some space missions cost billions of dollars. Most cost hundreds of millions. The US-based SETI Institute, by contrast, needs only a couple of million dollars a year to perform its ... read more |
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  What will China's Taikonauts do aboard Tiangong 1? Launch date is looming for three Chinese taikonauts, including the country's first woman in space, who will attempt to manually dock their Shenzhou 9 spacecraft at the orbiting Tiangong 1 space modu ... more | .. |
  It's a Sim: Out in Deep Space, New Horizons Practices the 2015 Pluto Encounter The science instruments aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were running at full tilt, with cameras snapping images, sensors scanning the space environment and the communications system trading ra ... more | .. |
  Dawn deep in the asteroid belt orbiting Vesta Far from Earth, on the opposite side of the sun, deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn is gradually spiraling around the giant protoplanet Vesta. Under the gentle pressure of its uniquely efficient ion pr ... more | .. |
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  There's more star-stuff out there but it's not Dark Matter More atomic hydrogen gas - the ultimate fuel for stars - is lurking in today's Universe than we thought, CSIRO astronomer Dr Robert Braun has found. This is the first accurate measurement of this ga ... more | .. |
  Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar particles traveling at nearly the speed of light that reached Earth about 20 minutes after the lig ... more | .. |
  The 2012 Transit of Venus On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again. Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by mor ... more | .. |
  Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ... more |
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South Korea deems building nuclear submarine at home 'reasonable'
The threat of space terrorism is no longer science fiction, but we're ill-prepared to combat it
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 Venus, a Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event - occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun b ... more | .. |
  Intelsat 19 Satellite Update Intelsat has reported a delay in deploying one of the two solar arrays on the Intelsat 19 satellite, which was launched by Sea Launch last week. Intelsat and Space Systems/Loral, the manufactu ... more | .. |
  Sea Launch Delivers the Intelsat 19 Spacecraft into Orbit Sea Launch AG launched Thursday the Intelsat 19 satellite from the Equator on the ocean-based Launch PlatformOdyssey, completing its eleventh mission for Intelsat S.A. and marking Sea Launch's first ... more | .. |
  USAF Awards Lockheed Martin GPS III Flight Operations Contract The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $68 million contract to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS III ... more |
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  Geoengineering could lead to a whiter sky One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from the Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar ... more | .. |
 James Cook and the Transit of Venus Every ~120 years a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of sta ... more | .. |
 In tree rings, Japanese scientists find 8th-century mystery In the late eighth century, Earth was hit by a mystery blast of cosmic rays, according to a Japanese study that found a relic of the powerful event in cedar trees. ... more | .. |
  E3 to showcase big videogame titles, hot trends Sequels to blockbuster console titles and play on smartphones or tablets will be showcased with Times Square-like glitz starting Tuesday at the E3 videogame extravaganza in Los Angeles. ... more |
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Japan deploys troops after wave of deadly bear attacks
New Copernicus Satellite Strengthens Earth Observation Programme
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 Venus, the planet of broken dreams When Venus next week eclipses Earth, an event that will not occur again for more than a century, millions of skygazers may have romantic thoughts about our closest neighbour and its twilight beauty. ... more | .. |
 UT's Josh Emery Uncovers Clues About Asteroid That Will Pass Near Earth The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with th ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin's McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby ... more |
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  On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more | .. |
 Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more | .. |
  Sierra Nevada Announces the Completion of Four Dream Chaser Milestones FOR NASA Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that the Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed four additional NASA Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program Mile ... more | .. |
  What role will Russia play in the space century? As technology develops and private companies expand into intergalactic travel, vacationing and working in space seems to be less and less far-fetched. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines ... more |
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 Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state o ... more | .. |
 Stellar Archaeology Traces Milky Way's History Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding how our Milky Way galaxy built itsel ... more | .. |
  Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more | .. |
  On early Earth, iron may have performed magnesium's RNA folding job On the periodic table of the elements, iron and magnesium are far apart. But new evidence suggests that 3 billion years ago, iron did the chemical work now done by magnesium in helping RNA fold and ... more |
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 Why is China sending a woman into space? "China's first female astronauts have, trained hard and conscientiously, and are now ready to take part in the Shenzhou manned spaceflights. For all astronauts the implementation of a manned spacefl ... more | .. |
 Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid (21) Lutetia is revealed by a comprehensive analysis of the data gathered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft when it flew past this large main-belt asteroid on 1 ... more | .. |
 Venus transit may boost hunt for other worlds Astronomers around the world will be using advanced telescopes to watch Venus cross in front of the Sun on June 5 and 6 in the hopes of finding clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX Dragon capsule splash lands in Pacific US company SpaceX's cargo vessel Thursday splash landed in the Pacific Ocean, capping a successful mission to the International Space Station and blazing a new path for private spaceflight. ... more |
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