Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, the ship that will deliver SpaceShipTwo into orbit, just started performing runway tests. We're one step closer to...
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NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. The Interplanetary Internet must be robust enough to withstand...
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Are you ready for one of the most hauntingly beautiful displays of celestial fireworks around? Then be on hand on the night of December 13 through the morning of...
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For the first time, beer brewed totally from barley grown in space can be enjoyed on terra firma. The Japanese-owned Sapporo Brewery is one of the oldest beer...
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Fox is developing a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie based on the popular anime series. Remarkably, the project still isnt officially announced and Fox is still keeping...
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A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of warm cloak of plasma around Earth. This newfound feature is...
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The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other. "Well, its a marvelous night for a Moondance"
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Of course, the Space Solar Power people promise to do things in an environmentally friendly way. But in a country in which people think that overhead power lines give...
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"One sweltering June afternoon in 1988, an understated Iowan named James Hansen turned global warming into an international issue with one sentence. He told a...
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A comet orbiting our Sun may be an interloper from another star system. Comet Machholz 1 isn't like other comets. David Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory...
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Is it the USA? The USSR? China? As more people flock to the moon, it's becoming an increasingly important question, with surprising legal ramifications
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The unequivocal signature of water vapor has been found on a planet beyond our solar system. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers detected the...
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Artist Josiah McElheny fuses physics with art. The Big Bang is represented with glass, lights, and metal. He says he got the idea from the chandeliers in the...
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Four teddy bears were sent to an altitude of 30 kilometres in a helium balloon on Monday (Image: Cambridge University) Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself . ....
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An eerie green cloud lurking around a nearby galaxy has puzzled scientists since it was discovered last year. New observations reveal that the clouds ghoulish...
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A pretty old Youtube video but still very interesting. Hakan Nordkvist believes he traveled in time after being sucked into a wormhole that appeared under his broken...
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Does sticking your flag in something mean you own it? We are about to find out, as several new space fairing countries are now orbiting the moon and some are planning...
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A new technique NASA has developed has been using the Hubble space telescope to find CO2, one of the byproducts of life, has found signs of the gas on a Jupiter-sized...
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This may be a first step in finding life on other planets. Or life as WE know it, since we only know of life that depends on water.
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There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a study has confirmed. German astronomers tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky...
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