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Remains of Earth-like planets discovered orbiting burnt-out stars

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

A huge number of incredibly cool and impressive discoveries about our solar system and the universe in general have been made using the Hubble space telescope. One of the latest discoveries made by scientists using the space telescope is signs of Earth-like planets discovered in the atmospheres of a pair of burnt out stars in a nearby star cluster. Read The Full Story

NASA says ISS has an ammonia coolant leak

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

NASA has confirmed that the international space station is currently in need of maintenance on the cooling system used on one the solar power generating arrays. At about 10:30 AM yesterday, members of ISS Expedition 35 crew reported to NASA that small white flakes were floating away from an area of the ISS' P6 truss structure. Read The Full Story

Study suggests water on the Moon came from Earth

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Scientists and researchers have discovered that droplets of water found in lunar rocks brought back from the Moon are identical on a chemical level from that of samples of ancient Earth. The rocks used in the study came from samples brought back by Apollo 15 in 1971 and Apollo 17 in 1972, the latter being NASA's last mission to the moon. Read The Full Story

Tomorrow’s annular eclipse to be live broadcasted online

, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Tomorrow evening, an annular eclipse is scheduled to happen in remote areas of the world most of us are not located in, a problem that is of no worry thanks to modern technology. For those who wish to watch the event, an Australia-based telescope will broadcast the eclipse from start to finish, allowing anyone to watch it from anywhere in the world. Read The Full Story

Valve engineer applies to Mars One program

, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Non-profit organization Mars One recently began accepting applications for the chance to travel to Mars in order to colonize the red planet, with the only caveat being that you'll be living there for the rest of your life. That didn't stop most applicants, though, as thousands of applications have been sent in to Mars One, one of which is from a Valve engineer. Read The Full Story

SpaceX signs Spaceport America deal to test Grasshopper rocket

, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

SpaceX is looking for a new domain to continue its testing of the Grasshopper reusable rocket, and it looks like they've settled on New Mexico's Spaceport America, a facility that Virgin Galactic also uses for various space-related purposes. SpaceX has signed a three-year deal with Spaceport America to allow the private space company to test its Grasshopper rocket on location. Read The Full Story

Herschel space telescope watches our neighborhood black hole feasting

, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Never before seen observations of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have been made by the Herschel space observatory, revealing unexpectedly huge temperatures as the stellar body chews through gas and dust. Sagittarius A*, the black hole around 26,000 light years from our solar system, had previously been shrouded in too much space debris to clearly make out the processes going on around it; however, thanks to new work by the European Space Agency, new theories around radiation have been spawned to explain the 1,000-degree centigrade heat. Read The Full Story

NASA images brightest gamma-ray burst ever

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Back on April 17, we reported on gamma-ray burst GRB 111209A, which was the longest of three unusually long bursts that were first detected back in 2010. Gamma-ray bursts typically only last a few seconds, but these three - and 111209A in particular - lasted into a span of hours, confounding scientists, who eventually identified the phenomenon as being the result of a supergiant star's death. All three of those bursts have been trumped by GRB 130427A. Read The Full Story

Manned Mars missions in 20 years say space experts

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

A manned mission to Mars could take place within the next two decades, NASA and the private sector have agreed, though the race is on to research and fund such the next ambitious step fo the space race. The feasibility of such a mission – and the political, financial, technological, and social problems that would need to be addressed first – is on the agenda of the Humans to Mars (H2M) summit this week, with NASA staffers, researchers, private space agencies, and more all coming together at George Washington University to explore the practicalities of sending astronauts to Mars by the 2030s.

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin EKGs hit the auction block

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

All sorts of space memorabilia from the early Apollo program has been put up for auction over the years. A lot of the items that have been up for auction were equipment issued to astronauts who participated in the program that the astronauts were allowed to bring home. For a while, NASA was moving to block all sale of these items claiming that they were government property. Read The Full Story

Ender’s Game Movie teaser trailer makes major spoiler for the uninitiated

, May 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

For those of you waiting for May 7th to see the first look at footage from the upcoming science fiction movie translation of the book Ender's Game, you're in for a treat. This week the folks at Summit Entertainment have released a teaser for the full trailer complete with an introduction by Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield, they playing two of the main characters from the story. But beware - if you're one of the rare people out there halfway through the book right this moment in preparation for the film, you'll be spoiled heavily. Read The Full Story

Hunt for alien life is too Earth-fixated argues expert

, May 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

An obsession with Earth-like conditions is blinding astronomers to other potential locations where alien life could flourish, one controversial theoretical physicist has argued, suggesting scientists are too inflexible to recognize all the possibilities. While the hunt for extraterrestrial life has so far focused on rocky planets that occupy roughly the same "sweet spot" in terms of where they orbit a star, MIT's Sara Seager says that ignores the possibility of liquid water and other essentials on exo-planets with orbits ten times further out than Earth is from our sun, National Geographic reports. Read The Full Story
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