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Filed under: Weird, Science Yesterday the three men who call the International Space Station home did something wholly unremarkable: They drank some water. I know,...
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“What you guys represent is an example of what vision means in the space programme, always describing our willingness to stretch beyond currrent boundaries and to...
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Filed under: News, Weird, Science Yesterday afternoon, some people in Arizona, USA, called the Federal Aviation Administration in droves to report an unidentified...
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The idea of getting fuel from algae isn’t new, only this time, NASA wants to have a go at the idea. Fuel from algae can be a lot more practical than fuel from plants...
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Astronaut Mike Massimino has sent the first tweet from space, making all the rocket buffs green with envy I presume.
From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling...
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Here is yet another move to meet the global energy needs. The solar power generation is not a new concept, however, placing solar arrays in space to capture the maximum...
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NASA has chosen May 11 as the launch date for its last repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA may move up its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope by one day.
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Eco Factor: Plan to better the efficiency of tidal energy.
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a cost-effective way to harness ocean tides...
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Eco Factor: Hydrogen fueling station generates hydrogen using renewable energy.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is leading a team of industry and university partners to...
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NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has beamed back the first images of a patch of faraway sky in the Milky Way galaxy where it hopes to find Earth-like planets.
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First it was the spectacular “Eye of GOD”… now it’s “Hand of GOD”. The amazing image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting...
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Eco Factor: Greenhouse designed to grow plants and vegetables on lunar surface.
Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corporation has developed a greenhouse that...
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One small step for NASA, one giant running leap for Stephen Colbert.
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Movito looks like a sleek, hubless electric scooter, and that partly is what the concept is. But it can do something different, like transforming into a car. Designed...
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Seven astronauts raced to the international space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on Monday, while NASA debated whether the orbiting outpost will need to move...
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NASA is fueling space shuttle Discovery again in hopes of finally getting its mission going.
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NASA still doesn’t know what caused a hydrogen gas leak that prevented space shuttle Discovery from flying earlier this week.
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NASA feels it has a good shot at sending shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Sunday following repairs out at the launch pad.
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has confirmed water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet. The planet named HD 189733b is at a distance of 64 light...
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The European Space Agency and some U.S. astronomers might have finally solved a 45-year-old mystery regarding the ghostly spiral arms in the galaxy M106.
A team of...
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Imagine being on a planet which has two or more suns. You will see two suns setting down the horizon one after another.
Astronomers have used NASA’s Spitzer...
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The first object that emerged after the Big Bang has left scientists debating on what that might be! - Is it the cosmic glow, the first star or quasar? Analyzing the...
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Andromeda, our giant neighboring galaxy, was involved in a head on collision with the dwarf galaxy, M32, some 210 million years ago, the only witness of the flaming...
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There is a huge intergalactic shock wave, or “sonic boom” in the middle of Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies which is now the scene of a gigantic...
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The environment of a typical spiral or starburst galaxy that looks almost pastoral is made fiery with this discovery. Packed together in tiny but extremely powerful...
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Two huge “hypergiant” stars are found circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has identified...
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DNA consists of organic molecules and proteins. Did you ever think from where the basic compounds necessary to build these molecules come from? If you didn’t,...
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Our Universe is rich with a bounty of young stars. And NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has uncompromisingly harvested them. Dozens of stars like the Sun, but much...
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Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland believe they have captured traces of radiation from long-extinguished stars that were...
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Thanks to the scientists. It’s now known that Charon, Pluto’s only confirmed moon so far, is no more alone. Astronomers have discovered two more moons of...
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It is said that every phenomenon leaves a clue or a mark. So did the first stars. Or you may call it the first object of the universe. To colonize the early universe,...
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