After the Earth, man does not seem to spare the space from its maximum exploration, rather exploitation. It’s now the turn of the great black yonder to become a crowded place with -- satellite operators, space agencies and prospective space tourism...
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Global warming is also occurring on Mars! A study of the ice caps on Mars may show that the red planet is experiencing a warming trend. For decades, it has been thought that the ice caps on Mars were mostly carbon dioxide (dry ice). But today, planetary...
Though this new analysis is controversial, it is feared that our universe may one day be obliterated or assimilated by a larger universe. The parallel universes proposed by some quantum theorists may not actually be parallel but could interact – and with...
It was in October 2005, CryoSat satellite crashed into the Arctic Ocean when its launch vehicle failed. The European Space Agency has planned to rebuild its lost CryoSat satellite. To provide valuable new data to climate scientists, and designed to...
The search for intelligent life on other planets is encouraging the research interests of astronomers. only a tiny fraction of the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy seem to have what it takes to support life on orbiting planets, scientists know. It...
Congratulations ADNET Systems Inc. NASA has selected ADNET, Lanham, Md., for the Sciences and Exploration Data Analysis five-year cost-plus award fee $220,931,298 contract. Isn’t it great?
The development and use of scientific computer systems;...
How are the massive galaxies in our universe formed? A study by an academic at The University of Nottingham gives us the first observational evidence for this. The implications of this study are vast. And to explain seemingly unrelated processes such as...
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer -- NASA's astronomy satellite is back in full operation. After a near-death experience in December 2004, its aging onboard software control system has been rejuvenated and its mission extended by enterprising...
Understanding the stars that produce some of that space dust has been tickling those impertinent minds for decades. And to bring that dust back to earth laboratories, NASA's Stardust mission just traveled seven years and 2.88 billion miles.
It is...
The Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan has witnesses the lift-off of a rocket carrying a satellite space telescope Tuesday. After a 48-hour delay caused by heavy rain, the M-5 rocket blasted off at 0628 local time (2128 GMT Tuesday). Astro-F will orbit the...
The environment of a typical spiral or starburst galaxy that looks almost pastoral is made fiery with this discovery. Packed together in tiny but extremely powerful cosmic globs, distant galaxies contain an inferno of very young, massive and violently...
Two new studies suggest that millions of stars too faint to be seen, are collectively responsible for a haze of X-rays that suffuses the Milky Way galaxy.
It is from a variety of sources that space is filled with a diffuse fog of X-rays. Some of the...
Proton radiation is more damaging to cells than previously assumed, scientists at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory have found. It is specifically, the cells' DNA that is vulnerable to proton...
Astronomers have been searching for advanced life beyond Earth. But, recently it has been recommended that they should focus their attention around beta CVn. CVn is a binary star roughly 26 light-years away, and it resembles our own Sun.
This has...
The Milky Way�s fastest pulsar has been observed. And to add to the amazing phenomenon of the space, it is now speeding out of the galaxy at more than 670 miles a second. The pulsar is propelled largely by a kick it received at its birth 2.5 million...
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