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A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September.European Space Agency mission managers woke the Rosetta probe from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid...
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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.
made popular Jul 12 2008
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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Jules Verne ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) is a resupply spacecraft for European cargo. It’s fully automated docking with ISS on 3rd April 2008 was a first!...
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Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft has relayed the very first Full Earthrise movie in high definition (HD) video, giving humans a uniquely beautiful view of our small blue...
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Malaysia is thinking of buying the Russian craft that carried the first Malaysian into space and putting it on exhibit to stimulate scientific interest among the...
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Although, the object in the picture above looks like a sponge floating in space, it is actually Hyperion: a Saturnian moon. This is probably one of the weirdest looking...
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NASA has given a grant to Dr. Mason Peck of the Cornell University to study the possibility of a Lorentz-Actuated Orbit (LAO) Spacecraft.
This spacecraft if developed...
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What could be the big thumb on RFID than this one? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it is testing the RFID technology to find...
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Global Surveyor is one of the spacecraft orbiting Mars. It was launched on a two-year mission to systematically map Mars while orbiting the Red Planet on Nov. 7,...
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Now, it’s the turn for the earth to save itself from the scorches of the sun! It will soon get an umbrella to reduce its temperature — by building a massive space...
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Saturn the planet that has fascinated people through centuries yet again spellbound with its unusual behavior. With the new images, sent by Cassini spacecraft on the...
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The three-year voyage is just about to end! Europe’s first mission to the moon – the European Space Agency’s SMART-1 – will crash-land in a cloud of dust...
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Sun will be pictured for the first time, detailing the three-dimensional views of its massive, weather disrupting eruptions. Thanks to NASA. The agency will be...
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A recent report says that the orbiting capsule of China’s Shenzhou VI spacecraft has returned successfully to earth after gathering scientific data in its 180 days...
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Have you booked your piece of land on moon? What not yet? Don’t worry; you still have some time. It’s crystal clear that the development of new technologies will cut...
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How did the planet Venus evolve? There are accepted views that massive volcanism 500 million years ago covered over much of the planet’s ancient features. But...
made popular Mar 17 2006
Though it has spent most of its life in the most frigid reaches of our solar system, Comet Wild 2 revealed something that challenges its stay in the extreme climate. It...
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A news conference from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston will be held at 3 p.m. EST, Monday, March 13. The subject of the news conference would be results from...
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begun to survey Saturn and its moons on July 4, 2004, and it returns to Titan on Monday for its twelfth flyby. Cassini will be reaching...
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The final attiring just before the performance. Set to launch in Spring 2006, the two Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrive at the NASA...
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Shinji Suzuki of Tokyo University’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics checks a 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide Space Shuttle-shaped paper plane after a wind tunnel durability test at a laboratory in Kashiwa...
