Tag: nasa
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NASA Finds More Earth-like Planets Outside Solar System
from japantimes.com: More planets that are near twins to Earth have been found outside our solar system – tantalizing worlds that could host extraterrestrial life. Astronomers announced Tuesday that, depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks…
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Red Planet Shows Signs of Life
from Press TV: NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back scientific data suggesting new evidence of water on Mars. The rover released pictures indicating that the Gale Crater on Mars used to be a huge lake of water far back in history. With the new evidence of water, the Red Planet must have been suitable for…
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Private Space Says: Don’t Overreact to Recent Mishaps
from floridatoday.com: Two high-profile mishaps involving private spacecraft last week have sparked new debate about whether the government should increase its oversight and regulation of a fledgling industry tackling complicated, risky ventures. But commercial space advocates say Congress and the administration shouldn’t view the unrelated accidents — one involving a rocket launch to the International…
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Video: Unmanned #NASA Rocket Explodes Shortly After Takes Off
from zerohedge.com: Several months ago, a Russian rocket, carrying Russia’s most advanced communications satellite, exploded on launch and the west was amused at Russia’s seeming incompetence, while birthing extensive speculation of the NSA’s involvement. Well, moments ago either Karma, or Russian hackers, intervened, and 6 seconds after launch, the NASA unmanned Antares rocket of rocket-maker…
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NASA: Humans Will Prove ‘We Are Not Alone In The Universe’ Within 20 Years
from cbslocal.com: NASA predicts that 100 million worlds in our own Milky Way galaxy may host alien life, and space program scientists estimate that humans will be able to find life within two decades. Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope…
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#NASA to Conduct Mars ‘Flying Saucer’ Test on Earth Read Latest
from newsmax.com: NASA is getting ready to launch a “flying saucer” into Earth’s atmosphere to test technology that could be used to land on Mars. For decades, NASA has depended on the same parachute design to slow spacecraft after they enter the Martian atmosphere. But it needs a larger and stronger parachute if it wants…
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NASA Captures Close-up Details of Solar Storm for First Time
from RT.com: NASA’s revolutionary solar observatory has captured rare footage of super-hot bubbles on the sun’s surface, known as coronal mass ejections. “The field of view seen here is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall,” NASA said in a description of the video, which shows the sun emitting flares into space. While…
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Kepler-186f: First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
from popularmechanics.com: A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone. “This…
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Saturn’s Newborn: Scientists Say Planet’s Ring May Give Birth to Baby Moon
from RT.com: Scientists believe a tiny satellite is emerging from the edge of Saturn’s ring system. A disturbance in the planet’s outer ring, called ‘Peggy,’ could grow into a separate icy moon – possibly the last one of its kind. Images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have earlier revealed an arc of 750 miles (1,200…
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Legacy of NASA’s Moon Trees Documented in Exhibition
from austinchronicle.com: All the way around our planet’s natural satellite and into this familiar Earth: There are more than 50 moon trees still alive in this country, and Erica Botkin is determined to document them all. Moon trees: trees grown from seeds taken into orbit around the moon during NASA’s Apollo 14 mission in 1971.…
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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers 715 New Planets
from smh.com.au: NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a “bonanza” of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope’s planet-hunting mission. A new method for verifying potential planets led to the volume of new discoveries from Kepler, which aims to help humans search for other…
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NASA’s IRIS Spacecraft Captures Its Biggest Solar Flare
from frenchtribune.com: NASA’s ‘Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph’ (IRIS) spacecraft has captured an amazing video of the mid-level solar flare on January 28, which is its biggest since it launched into orbit last summer. The spacecraft is trained to travel through a region of the sun in order to understand how solar materials move and gather…
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NASA to Send Robotic Doctor to Space
from RT.com: NASA is developing a humanoid robot to perform medical procedures, including surgery, at the International Space Station and even en route to Mars. The robot, which is named ‘Robonaut 2,’ is now undergoing further development and tests at Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Zsolt Garami, an instructor at the institute, told Computerworld that…
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NASA, France Sign Mars Lander Deal for 2016
from smh.com.au: The United States and France plan to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet. The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, dusty planet, and will be…
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NASA to Study Almost Absolute Zero Matter at ISS
from RT.com: NASA has revealed its plans to create the coldest spot in the known universe on board the International Space Station in 2016. The researchers are preparing to study matter at temperatures near absolute zero, revealing the world of quantum mechanics. The US space agency has announced that its researchers are currently working on…