 Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars. After targeting its certified landing site with a trajectory, or flight path, correction maneuver on April 10, the spacecraft's ... | |
 Planets by the Dozen 8 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds ... | |
 The Antennae Galaxies move closer 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The Antennae Galaxies are among the closest known merging galaxies. The two galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, began interacting a few hundred million years ago, creating one of the most impressive ... | |
Canada blocks sale of top space company to US firm: minister 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Canada's industry minister confirmed Friday he is blocking the sale of leading space firm MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to a US defense contractor, saying it provided no net benefit to Canada. | |
 Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say 14 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months before it's clear whether ... | |
Another Olympic contest -- weather forecasting 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Meteorologists may not always feel appreciated, but at the Beijing Olympics at least they will have their own contest. | |
NASA Successfully Completes First Series of Ares Engine Tests 8 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation ... | |
 Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat-2 launch 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring ... | |
 Solar Variability: Striking a Balance with Climate Change May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. The sun also delivers an annual and seasonal impact, changing the character of each hemisphere as Earth's orientation ... | |
Western states rebuff plan for Italian nuclear waste in Utah 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Eight Western states on Thursday rejected a company's plan to ship tons of radioactive waste from Italy for disposal in Utah, saying importing foreign loads would violate the group's rules. | |
 Chilean volcano captured blasting ash May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Chile’s Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke (centre left of image) into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina’s Patagonia Plateau in this Envisat image acquired on 5 May 2008. | |
Exhaling for Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Exhaling for Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System HOUSTON -- Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does ... | |
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