NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has been shut down by the failure of one of the reaction wheels that keep it pointed, the space agency announced. More potentially habitable planets, even smaller and more Earth-like, have been identified but have not yet been confirmed. Kepler, launched in March 2009, orbits the sun at roughly the same [...]
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NASA has launched a new communication satellite to stay in touch with its space station astronauts and relay more Hubble telescope images. An unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted into the starry night sky carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. This is the 11th TDRS satellite to be launched by NASA. The space agency uses [...]
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India‘s Sachin S. Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be performed in outer space. The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), [...]
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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface [...]
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Alien planets are incredibly common in our own galaxy Milky Way and it may be having as many as 160 billion planets, a six-year-long study has suggested. According to the study, published in the journal Nature, there are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy and each of them hosts at least 1.6 planets on [...]
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Astronomers should start hunting for planets like the Tatooine in the science fiction series “Star Wars”, as Earth-like worlds could exist in the habitable zones around binary systems, scientists say. In the “Star Wars” universe, Tatooine was a circumbinary planet that had two Suns. In September last year, NASA’s Kepler space telescope had discovered the [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the moon will be examined for telltale signs that aliens once visited our cosmic neighbourhood if plans put forward by scientists go ahead. Passing extraterrestrials might have left messages, scientific instruments, heaps of rubbish or evidence of mining on the dusty lunar surface that could be spotted by human [...]
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NASA kicked off the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in the latest mission to understand how Earth’s closest neighbour formed. There was no champagne popping in the mission control room at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the Grail spacecraft arrived back-to-back over the New Year’s weekend, but several scientists [...]
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, project looks for alien life in a one, main specific way by scanning for radio signals deliberately beamed towards earth from distant stars. Alien missions to moon likely to have been long ago Moon would preserve traces for millions of years Easier to find alien debris than radio signals Nasa’s [...]
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NASA has developed a space harpoon to take samples from comets with surgical precision without landing on the rugged celestial bodies. Engineers at the US space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have built a trial harpoon that is six feet tall. The bow is made out of a pair of springs normally used to provide the [...]
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A super-size rover zoomed toward Mars on an 8-month, 354 million-mile (570 million-kilometre) journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet.NASA‘s six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth’s next-door neighbour might [...]
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As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA‘s newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 7-foot arm tipped with a jackhammer and a laser to break through the Martian red rock.What really makes it stand out: [...]
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A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on November 16 successfully docked to the International Space Station.The Soyuz TMA-22 with NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin onboard docked to the orbiting station several minutes ahead of schedule Moscow time. The three blasted off from the Russia-leased cosmodrome [...]
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NASA‘s powerful Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a number of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation.The galaxies are many times smaller than the Milky Way, yet they churn out stars at such a fast pace that their stellar content would double in just 10 million years, said NASA.By comparison, the Milky Way would take [...]
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Astronomers claim to have discovered a planet which orbits two suns, like the fictional planet Tatooine featured in the sci-fi film series Star Wars. An international team, which made the finding through NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, says the planet, called Kepler-16b, is about 200 light years from Earth and is believed to be a frozen world of [...]
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