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Among the discoveries made by previous satellites was that the universe is dotted with powerful gamma ray bursts lasting only a few seconds and never reappearing. Searching out these bursts, which have been linked in some cases to the implosions of very...
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The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past...
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GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon’s terrain and landscape pose a number of...
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THIRTY-NINE years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed
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Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The...
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There’s a new contender for the title of the Milky Way’s brightest star.
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The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation’s next spaceship: Lots of No. 1.
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Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and...
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Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.
They were wrong.
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NASA’s Space Shuttle will fly for one last time on May 31. After the Space Shuttle makes that final journey, Endeavour, Discovery and Atlantis retire four months...
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Ever heard about land vehicles that travel at a supersonic speed? Well, there have been vehicles, which actually do. Brits achieved a record speed of 763mph and the...
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NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.
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By the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will...
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Before we completely bid adieu to our nation’s birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout-out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars...
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Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at...
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After spending years terrorizing and baffling people, making some look crazy to everyone, and generating immense buzz, scientists are now satisfied with their mischief...
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The Messenger space probe, which began its 5 billion mile journey to Mercury four years ago, has provided new evidence that the closest planet to the sun is contracting...
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When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA...
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A man and his friend have been charged with stabbing and beating the man’s ex-wife, her two children and her relative, a NASA scientist, before setting fire to a...
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NASA\’s Climate TimeMachine visualization shows the changes in annual Arctic Sea ice, sea surface height, carbon dioxide emissions, and global surface...
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Fewer astronauts, more robots. That’s the call from three European aerospace engineers, who argue that crewed satellite repair missions - like the ones flown by...
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International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes are not black after all.
The...
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U.S. astrophysicists say they have, for the first time, used a supercomputer to simulate the merger of three black holes.
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It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I...
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With chunks of ice the size of continents breaking off from Antarctica; the mass deaths of and disappearance of first frogs, then bees and now bats; the on-going proof...
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NASA’s Swift satellite and Japan’s Suzaku X-ray observatory claimed to have discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN).
AGN is distinguished from common...
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A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the universe, no matter and not even light can...
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Do you know that galactic mergers keep a galaxy growing! A big galaxy is created with the merger of two galaxies along with several stars. But, a big question arises...
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It is known that galaxies collide over billions of years, to lead the super massive black holes at their centers merge into a single black hole. In the whole process, a...
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Galaxies are found to be crouching within itself, super-massive black holes, which are of the mass similar to millions of stars!
Yes, stellar mass black holes can...
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Can you ever think of weighing something that is beyond your accessibility? Something that accounts for a huge mass and huge size, which limits every technological...
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NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has observed a remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole.
The eclipse has allowed astronomers to measure the swirling disk of...
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As big fish eat little fish in the Earth’s vast oceans, so too do super massive black holes in different galaxies, gorge on smaller black holes and stars, making...
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Do you know how black holes light up the universe? Never mind, if you don’t know. Astronomers are here to reply to all your queries. The researchers rather...
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How are the massive galaxies in our universe formed? A study by an academic at The University of Nottingham gives us the first observational evidence for this. The...
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Two new studies suggest that millions of stars too faint to be seen, are collectively responsible for a haze of X-rays that suffuses the Milky Way galaxy.
It is from a...
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Black holes are much more numerous. They also evolved differently than researchers would have expected. A Penn State astronomer informed according to data from X-ray...
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Astronomy and Space Exploration is considered to be the buzz word for beginning with an astronomy class in schools and colleges. Gallatin High School is introducing the...
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Do you know what build the earth? Its quite obvious that it is made from the materials available – is it a conglomeration of materials scattered in the space? Black...
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Bad Astronomy Blog informs that scientists and engineers gingerly activated the complex equipment onboard Swift satellite that would allow it to fulfill its mission: to...
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