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Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but...
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The Bush administration says it is moving quickly on a number of fronts to get a $700 billion rescue program up and running, including consulting with private law firms...
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The Jonas Brothers will perform during halftime of the Dallas Cowboys’ nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game against the Seattle Seahawks.
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HBO, an American network, is airing a documentary on the nation’s families who lost their loved one fighting in Iraq. Titled “Section 60: Arlington National...
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Wall Street headed for huge rebound Monday with the Dow Jones industrial average futures up 398, or 4.76 percent, to 8,768. Standard & Poor’s 500 index...
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Alaska’s ousted public safety commissioner is arguing that a state legislative report damages Gov. Sarah Palin’s image of being an upfront and open...
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The London Fashion Week was a delight to follow with their designers coming out of the box and finally offering more than just a glimpse of spring colors.
The...
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is praising former rival Barack Obama, saying the Democratic presidential nominee is closing in on winning on Election Day.
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Wall Street headed for huge rebound Monday as investors, hoping that the stock market has reached a bottom after eight sessions of devastating losses, sent stock...
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Levi Johnston, who’s having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, can’t believe all the things he’s hearing.
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The Federal Reserve on Sunday approved Wells Fargo’s $11.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia, removing the deal’s last major regulatory hurdle.
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Negotiations have begun to end a five-week strike by machinists for the Boeing Co.
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Spanish bank Banco Santander SA is in “advanced talks” to acquire Philadelphia-based thrift Sovereign Bancorp Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported on...
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With the world’s financial markets on a stomach-churning ride, the Bush administration is scrambling to get a $700 billion rescue effort for the U.S. banking...
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A jury has awarded nearly $11 million to a woman who became partially paralyzed after waiting two hours for a hospital brain scan.
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These are tough times for Detroit, America’s auto Mecca. Two American icons and carmakers General Motors and Chrysler have recently started to explore the...
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The North Korean nation led by eccentric leader Kim Jong Il has just been removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism this past...
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Orientalism, Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said’s 1978 groundbreaking text, was an invaluable contribution, and the most plenary one, to understanding historic...
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The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tropical Storm Nana is disorganized and is expected to weaken to a tropical depression in the Atlantic.
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Michigan voters will be thrust into the crossroads of science, ethics and religion next month when they decide whether to loosen the state’s restrictions on...
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A wildfire that had burned more than 2,000 acres and forced more than 1,000 people from their homes north of Los Angeles was only smoldering early Monday, but worries...
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Astronomers say a small asteroid is about to make a fiery but harmless dive into Earth’s atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa.
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Mars had floods from time to time, a new study has suggested.Astronomers claim to have found evidence that ancient features on the surface of Mars, called valley...
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Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they...
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Astronomers announced today that a new “minor planet” with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune. Using the...
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Just when we thought we were beginning to understand what supernovae and gamma ray bursts were all about. Astronomers have just uncovered the true nature of what they...
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A team of astronomers announced they have discovered the smallest and potentially most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet. Five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a...
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Whoa. That’s an open cluster, a collection of thousands of stars that are (in general) gravitationally bound to one another. In reality, over millions of years, the...
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Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million...
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The ancient astronomers once deemed the Moon, like Mother Earth, to be awash with water and gave fanciful names to its “seas.”
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Over the past three years three supernova explosions have left astronomers baffled. Not because of their locale or any such mundane mystery as that, but because they...
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Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
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We cannot go back in time and stick a thermometer in the early universe, but astronomers have done the next best thing, using an indirect technique to find out what the...
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Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old.The scientists, who announced their findings...
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Images from the Hubble telescope reveal eight new Einstein rings, joining only three others previously known. Einstein rings are pairs of galaxies, with a foreground...
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Astronomers are now able to predict when a certain type of star will let loose a powerful eruption.The explosions occur on a neutron star, a city-sized remnant of a...
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Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own.
So far researchers have identified two planets very similar...
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Still drooling over the big green tinged diamond dug out in South Africa and the largest D-color flawless diamond? Astronomers have now found the largest diamond of all...
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Astronomers always kept trying to create a bigger and powerful telescope. But, you would be astonished to know that one of the most powerful telescopes positioned in...
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Top astronomers have come across a groundbreaking technique that enables them to determine the age and life of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The astronomers...
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