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The origin of the universe has always been shrouded in mystery. Asteroids may offer critical information in the study of the formation of the solar system. European scientists are now planning an intensive mission to collect dust and rubble from an...
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In this diagram, the sun’s oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. The blue curve traces the sun’s shape averaged over a three month...
made popular Oct 3 2008
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NASA said Monday it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.
made popular Sep 29 2008
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NASA said Monday it is delaying its shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of an unexpected breakdown of the telescope.
made popular Sep 29 2008
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The Hubble Space Telescope has stopped sending science data, forcing NASA to regroup and possibly delay the space shuttle mission planned in just two weeks to upgrade...
made popular Sep 29 2008
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NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has malfunctioned in orbit, and that may mean a delay in the space shuttle mission to service it.
made popular Sep 29 2008
EcoFactor: A new building technique that uses old freight containers to build new green homes that are not just cost effective but also save energy and time.
Using...
made popular Sep 26 2008
No matter how often we hear about the developed world becoming more like Big Brother every day, it’s not until you see images like these from NASA that you get...
made popular Sep 26 2008
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NASA is delaying next month’s shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the...
made popular Sep 24 2008
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NASA is delaying next month’s shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the...
made popular Sep 24 2008
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In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make _ a rescue mission.
made popular Sep 19 2008
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NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour to the launch pad early Friday in case something goes wrong with the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope mission.
made popular Sep 19 2008
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NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again.
made popular Sep 18 2008
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The October launch date of NASA’s shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope is in jeopardy because of a problem with the replacement batteries for the...
made popular Sep 17 2008
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The October launch date of NASA’s shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope is in jeopardy because of a problem with the replacement batteries for the...
made popular Sep 17 2008
Doctors working with NASA scientists believe that they may have a way to combat one of the greatest health dangers of space travel: bone loss.
made popular Sep 16 2008
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NASA chose a University of Colorado proposal for a $485 million Mars mission on Monday after a nine-month delay caused by a conflict of interest in the selection...
made popular Sep 15 2008
In the latest scorching sci-fi movie ‘Sunshine’ set in the backdrop of the year 2057, the ‘real space age’ humans deliver a thermonuclear...
made popular Sep 13 2008
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NASA’s new moon rocket passed a key design milestone late Wednesday.
made popular Sep 11 2008
NASA is about out of options for keeping U.S. astronauts in space after 2011.
made popular Sep 10 2008
EcoFactor: This technology aims at providing clean and renewable energy on a large scale.
Space solar power could be the best solution to our long-term energy needs....
made popular Sep 10 2008
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A European Space Agency experiment has shown that microscopic animals called ‘water bears’ can survive in the vacuum of space.
According to a report in New...
made popular Sep 10 2008
When we look at the star filled night sky most of us do not realize we are looking back in time. The stars, planets and other matters in the space separated from us by...
made popular Sep 10 2008
For the first time in the history of all research carried out on our neighbouring planet Mars, scientists have discovered an active glacier on its surface. This path...
made popular Sep 7 2008
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Scientists at the European Space Agency are preparing for the first fly-by of a comet by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the...
made popular Sep 5 2008
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space...
made popular Jul 11 2008
Fancy going on a trip to the planet Mars?
The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to make a ‘pretend trip to Mars’.
The duration of the trip...
made popular Jun 22 2007
‘Wearable Technology’ has developed new methods that take over the limitations we come across while using the contemporary technological gadgets.
Instead...
made popular May 7 2007
This is a really good competition to pep up the spirits of astronauts. The European Space Agency or ESA has launched a contest for compiling a list of songs which...
made popular Apr 27 2007
European Space Agency’s Integral observatory has helped astronomers in constructing the largest catalogue of individual gamma-ray emitting celestial...
made popular Feb 21 2007
We seem to be progressing on our Mars colonizing intentions as detailed height contours maps with names of geological features on the Martian surface are made ready....
made popular Feb 13 2007
Canadian HDTV owners will be delighted to hear that they will de able to make stunning HD views of the Earth. Discovery HD will present a 30-minute commercial-free HD...
made popular Nov 10 2006
It whirls in the atmosphere above Venus’ South Pole - it is an amazingly bizarre double vortex, found by a new mission to the planet. Thanks to the unmanned Venus...
made popular Jun 28 2006
The leading IT service provider LogicaCMG will work for the Galileo programme which is sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union. For which a...
made popular May 8 2006
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...
made popular Feb 18 2006
Space is always eventful and to satisfy their impertinent minds, the scientists are always busy exploring the outer world with new probes and discoveries. Here are some...
made popular Jan 25 2006
Britain’s Beagle 2 mission to Mars went missing on December 19 2003. It could not be tracked since then. But, the scientist behind the failed space mission...
made popular Dec 21 2005
A series of researches on global warming, and their results seem to have encouraged astronomers to venture to Venus with a similar concern. The count-down is over....
made popular Nov 9 2005
The two natural satellites of Saturn are kept away from each other by expansive rings. The rings are playing their parts well. Cassini snapped this photograph of...
made popular Nov 5 2005
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