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Dark Asteroids Found Near Earth (11 March 01:15) |
| A new infrared telescope has found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close to Earth. |
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Moon Room With a View (11 March 01:11) |
| If you think the newly installed panoramic view cupola on the International Space Station is cool, I’ve got a room for you on the moon -- with a view. It's definitely a fixer-upper but wel... |
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Wide Angle Exploiting Mars (11 March 11:50) |
| A manned mission to Mars may be a long way off, but what efforts are underway to make our eventual arrival as successful as possible? |
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What is the LHC Trying to Accomplish (11 March 02:53) |
| As the Internet goes crazy about the LHC shutdown in 2011 (a shutdown that is actually in the LHC schedule rather than anything sudden), what's the plan for the world's largest particle acce... |
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International Space Station in New Light (10 March 09:13) |
| No, this is not a new model Jedi TIE Fighter -- it's the very real International Space Station passing across the field-of-view of a German Earth-watching satellite known as TerraSar-X . Thi... |
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The LHC to Shut Down Again (10 March 08:55) |
| The epic start-up drama surrounding the world's most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist. |
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Test-Firing of SpaceX Falcon Rocket Aborted (10 March 08:21) |
| There's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two se... |
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The Carnival of Space 144 (09 March 04:02) |
| Welcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but if you're a newcomer, prepare yourself for an experience b... |
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Obama to Host Space Summit in Florida (09 March 01:16) |
| Say what you like about President Obama, but at least he’s no coward. Otherwise, the last place he’d want to show his face is central Florida, ground zero for the next tsunami of job lay... |
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Speck Spills Secret of Comets Birth (08 March 05:27) |
| A solar shock wave may have flung a particle to the outer solar system where it became part of a comet. |
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Is It ATLAS or Is It Art (07 March 11:44) |
| CERN has done a heckuva job in raising public awareness of the Large Hadron Collider; I'd argue that it's currently the most recognizable experimental physics facility in the world. Granted,... |
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Cosmic Clues (07 March 11:24) |
| Last month astrophysicists at Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology presented their latest results from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's observations of ... |
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Planetary Trash Talk (07 March 11:00) |
| The inspiration for the new NOVA program, "The Pluto Files," featuring astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, was the public outcry that accompanied the downgrading of Pluto from a planet to a "dwa... |
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Come Feel the Noise (07 March 08:30) |
| The physics blogosphere is buzzing about a new paper by cosmologist Craig Hogan -- the subject of a long feature by Ron Cowen in Science News -- proposing that our universe is a hologram, ma... |
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Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars (05 March 06:52) |
| Tumbleweed probes exploring the Dao Vallis region of Mars. The inhospitable terrain is un-passable using conventional rovers, whereas a wind-blown Tumbleweed could traverse the gullies and d... |
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Space Tumbleweed Rovers Could Explore Mars (05 March 04:36) |
| New concepts for Mars-probing rovers would use Martian wind to move around the planet . James Williams gets a look at two of the designs. |
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Earth Raised Magnetic Shield Earlier than Thought (05 March 12:31) |
| Understanding the conditions of early Earth could aid our search for life elsewhere in the universe. |
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Black Hole Blowback Could Impact Galactic Evolution Big Pic (04 March 09:38) |
| Languishing in a galactic nuclei 50 million light years away is a voracious eater, destroying stars, but possibly building its host galaxy. |
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Mars Ice Age Revealed in Map (04 March 05:26) |
| Radar revealing remnants of a vast ice sheet under Mars hint at the Red Planet's climate changes over millions of years. |
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Bully for ESO 306-17 (04 March 04:29) |
| Judging from the latest Hubble image released today, some galaxies are a lot like schoolyard bullies. I mean, there are more than a hundred billion galaxies in our observable universe, and m... |
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Many Dwarfs Died In the Making of This Galaxy (04 March 02:29) |
| Did the Milky Way cannibalize ancient dwarf galaxies that strayed too close? By studying one primordial star in an existing dwarf galaxy, this appears to be the case. |
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Buzz Aldrins Path to Mars (03 March 10:46) |
| Sending astronauts to Mars within a decade is do-able, says Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, pointing to a plan for a deep-space exploration vehicle and a heavy-lift rocket based on space shutt... |
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China to Launch Space Station Module in 2011 (03 March 09:29) |
| The Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace," will lay the foundation of China's maiden space station. |
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Next Mars Probe Gets Carbon-Sniffing Tool (03 March 04:51) |
| A new tool for the next Mars rover will allow it to definitively detect organic matter, avoiding controversy that has plagued results from the Viking lander.
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Earth In High-Definition and Living Color (03 March 11:51) |
| Space photographs of the full globe of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts in the late 1960s first revealed just how fragile and finite a world we live upon. The Earth was dubbed the “blu... |
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Mars Express Swings by Phobos (02 March 10:10) |
| The information the satellite gathers could prove crucial to understanding the origin of Mars' moon. |
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The Sun Is Sexy Space Weather Prediction 20 (02 March 03:45) |
| Space weather prediction is a topic that is often overlooked in favor of more "exotic" studies, but is social media and the new solar missions making solar physics "sexy"? |
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New Class of Variable Star Discovered (02 March 02:29) |
| Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers who are currently digitizing and analyzing 100 years of photographic plates of the night's sky have made their first discovery: a new class of extreme variabl... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy (28 February 01:44) |
| The good news, the Milky Way could be abundant in intelligent life forms. The bad news, we may never hear from them. At last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of... |
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