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Japanese spacecraft to search for clues of Earth's first lifeWashington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on Earth. Hayabusa 2 will be JAXA's second attempt at collecting material from an asteroid, after its first mission returned to Earth in June 2010. Hayabusa 2 will be launched in 2014 with a view to settling on the targeted asteroid, named 1999 JU3, in mid-2018 before arriving back on Earth in 2020. ... read more |
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  Russia's moonshot hope 'not a dream' Russia has proposed a joint project with Kazakhstan and Ukraine to build a heavy rocket capable of launching manned missions to the Moon. It believes this project could be accomplished within three ... more | .. |
  Mars suitable for colonization Mars will become a major target for human space explorers in the next 50 years, experts from the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation say. According to Energia's President and Chief Designer Vitaly ... more | .. |
 Sweet building blocks of life found around young star Life is made up of a series of complex organic molecules, including sugars. A team of astronomers led by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, have now observed a simple sugar molecule in the g ... more | .. |
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 New research eclipses existing theories on moon formation The Moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, known as "Theia." Over the past decades scientists have simulated this pr ... more | .. |
  First-Stage Fuel Loaded; Launch Weather Forecast Improves At Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41, loading of the RP-1 fuel aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage was finished last night. Though it was completed late at 9:30 p.m. E ... more | .. |
  Crew Makes Final Preps for Thursday's Spacewalk Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide worked inside the Quest Joint Airlock configuring their spacesuits and tools for a spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EDT Thursday. Flight Engin ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Eastbound Trek on Martian Surface NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. The rover drove eastw ... more |
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 Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its accomplishment in the form of track marks in the Martian soil. Careful inspection of the tr ... more | .. |
  Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released. One image captures the changing hues of Saturn' ... more | .. |
  Evaporating Planet Has a Comet Tail Dutch astronomers have found clear evidence that a faraway exoplanet is falling apart. New analysis of data from NASA's Kepler satellite shows that this exoplanet, which orbits its host star every 1 ... more | .. |
  Proba-2's espresso-cup microcamera snaps Hurricane Isaac An experimental camera smaller than an espresso cup on ESA's Proba-2 microsatellite caught this view of soon-to-be Hurricane Isaac as it moved west of the Florida coast into the Gulf of Mexico on Mo ... more |
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 A "Blue Moon" Heralds the Harvest Heralding the change in season, a full Moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky on August 31st for the second time this month (the first time came on August 1st). Many people use the expression "o ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted from Another Planet For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca ... more | .. |
 NASA, Texas astronomers find first multi-planet system around a binary star NASA's Kepler mission has found the first multi-planet solar system orbiting a binary star, characterized in large part by University of Texas at Austin astronomers using two telescopes at the unive ... more | .. |
  Russian Women Could Return to Space Russian women can be included into the country's cosmonauts team if they successfully complete all selection stages, Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said on Tues ... more |
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Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
UN support for Morocco's plan for Western Sahara 'historic': King Mohammed VI
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  Robbers nabbed thanks to GPS phone in loot Two robbers who held up a post office in the Parisian suburbs Wednesday were caught 40 minutes later thanks to a GPS-enabled phone they snatched from one of the employees. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover heads east, driving 'beautifully' NASA's Curiosity rover has begun its first major drive across the surface of Mars, handling "beautifully" as it prepares to start some serious scientific work, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  NASA builds satellites from smartphones NASA says it's using off-the-shelf technology - a smartphone - to make the most inexpensive, easiest-to-build satellites in the history of space exploration. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity In It for the Long Haul In recent days, Curiosity has accomplished a number of firsts, including the first use of its laser to zap a nearby rock and its first short drive. Many more such firsts lie ahead. But as the rover ... more |
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 Astronauts searching for life - underground Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week - albeit deep underground instead of in outer space. An international crew of six astronau ... more | .. |
 ISRO to score 100 with a cooperative mission Sep 9 The 100th launch mission of the Indian space agency slated for Sep 9 will also showcase the cooperation between two global competitors, a growing trend in the space industry, said a senior official ... more | .. |
 $3.7 Billion Reasons Why GIS Technology is The Future Want a reason to enroll in an online geographic information systems (GIS) degree program? Consider this: When technology historians look back on 2012, they might look at this as the GIS year. "2012 ... more | .. |
  The Kuiper Belt at 20: Paradigm Changes in Our Knowledge of the Solar System New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 24 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. This summer's spacecraft and payload checkout went extremely well, as did both major flight-so ... more |
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  New online portal launched for astronomical heritage protection A new web portal dedicated to protecting astronomical heritage sites has been launched during the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The site, at www.astronomicalhe ... more | .. |
  China Exclusive: Scientists looking for site for giant solar telescope Chinese scientists are looking for a site for a giant solar telescope, which will be the world's largest in the next two decades with data helping to understand solar activities. The Chinese G ... more | .. |
  Manned interplanetary missions on NASA's agenda After dropping plans to return to the Moon, the American space agency NASA has set its sights on Mars. But before venturing there, it is going to test out its latest interplanetary technologies duri ... more | .. |
  Space Launch System Giving Marshall, Langley Wind Tunnels a Workout Launching rockets is no easy or inexpensive task. Developers must consider the ground support infrastructure, fuel elements and flight hardware itself; not to mention the safety of everyone involved ... more |
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  Hubble Captures a Collection of Ancient Stars The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located about 33,000 light years away from the Ear ... more | .. |
 Russia to reform cosmonaut recruitment Russia says it is making changes in the way it conducts its effort to recruit cosmonauts, with one official saying the current procedure is "impractical." ... more | .. |
 Dream Chaser Team Completes Milestone Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is pleased to announce that the company's Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed its first milestone as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capabi ... more | .. |
 Dragon Spacecraft Set to Make Second Run for ISS U.S. private company SpaceX will launch its Dragon space freighter on a next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in October this year, the Universe Today portal said. It will b ... more |
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