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Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:00
Molecules on exoplanets'”possible precursors to life'”first seen by Spitzer
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has collected enough light from distant planets—what are called exoplanets—to detect molecules in their atmospheres. Astronomers were not expecting to accomplish…
Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:02
Space telescope analyses exoplanetary atmospheres
By Stephen Withers
NASA scientists have for the first time identified constituents of the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) by using the Spitzer…
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:38
Space station science insufficient 45 years after John Glenn's historic flight
Former U.S. astronaut John Glenn told a group of schoolchildren on Tuesday, February 20, 2007—the 45th anniversary of his historic Mercury 6 mission as the…
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The father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, is overseeing efforts by NASA to build a permanent Internet link to Mars by 2008.
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:30
Asteroid collision course sends UN into frenzy
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The possibility that an asteroid will strike the Earth on Sunday, April 13 2036 has reverberated across the globe, with the world’s citizens wondering what…
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Sunday, 18 February 2007 16:33
Solved: Einstein's Twin Paradox put back in the box
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
One of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics is a century old paradox suggested by Einstein. Now Subhash Kak, a professor at the Louisiana…
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Sunday, 18 February 2007 10:33
Success: NASA's five THEMIS satellites launch into space
By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Five THEMIS satellites crucial to understanding solar winds and space storms which can affect spacecraft and astronauts have successfully launched into space from the Cape…
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On a cosmological scale, an asteroid called Apophis is small. However, if the 250 meter wide space rock hits Earth in 2036, as scientists say…
Upper-level winds too strong for NASA's liking has delayed the launch of a Delta II rocket and the THEMIS mission by 24 hours. But what…
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Space shuttle Atlantis has reached the launch pad ahead of its scheduled March 15 liftoff from Kennedy Space Center on an 11-day mission.
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