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Archive - June 2006
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A huge asteroid is hurtling toward Earth! But, there is a hope as astronomers expect it to miss the planet narrowly. The space rock -- discovered in December 2004 -- is called 2004 XP14. It will pass the earth by a little more than the average...
Discovery is ready to take off for the first space shuttle flight in nearly a year. But, the clouds in the forecast raised doubts if it can lift-off the launch pad this weekend.
The clouds capable of producing lightning provide a 60 percent chance of...
Some asteroids are dangerous for the earth. It can damage a city by a single strike. A new telescope has been designed for spotting such potentially dangerous asteroids. Already taken its first test images, the telescope will be able to find space...
At least 14 American crew members have developed kidney stones in the last 5 years! While in space, the zero-gravity environment lead the astronauts to losing bone calcium and muscle strength. And, this calcium can end up in their kidneys, risking...
It whirls in the atmosphere above Venus’ South Pole – it is an amazingly bizarre double vortex, found by a new mission to the planet. Thanks to the unmanned Venus Express spacecraft for spotting this amazing phenomenon in the planet.
Winds of...
Humans can even aspire to grow crops and manage a garden in space! Can we grow food in microgravity? To satiate this intrusiveness, the space shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch July 1, will carry the research of Miami University professor John...
Food and equipments have reached the International Space Station successfully. According to the Russian space agency, an unmanned Russian Progress M-57 cargo vessel that was carrying two and a half tonnes of food, water, fuel and scientific...
The Hubble Space Telescope is aging with its reputed history of producing unparalleled views of distant galaxies and infant stars. With its increasing years of service, one of the main cameras has stopped working.
One of the three cameras in...
After 1978, when Pluto is discovered to be accompanied by its moon Charon, it is in May 2005, astronomers discovered two more moons of the planet, which is about two to three times as far from the ninth planet in the solar system as its large moon....
The space above the earth surrounding us fizzes with bubbles of super-hot gas! The bubbles constantly grow and pop around the Earth. It is where the Earth's magnetic field merges with a constant stream of particles that flow out from the sun,...
China plans to walk on the moon by 2024, a Hong Kong newspaper reported quoting a top Chinese scientist. The manned lunar mission was announced by lunar program vice director, Long Lehao. This announcement revels the country's ambitious space...
Researchers in Russia, Italy, Germany and Sweden joined hands to build the first satellite that will detect both antimatter and dark matter. The ways to detect the dark matters, which make 80% of the Universe, were only rudimentary.
The...
The Russians are gearing up for a mission to Mars and one of its moons in 2009. According to Russia's space agency, it is planning to send a space exploration capsule up to the Red Planet to analyze its surface and also collect test samples from one...
Do you know how black holes light up the universe? Never mind, if you don't know. Astronomers are here to reply to all your queries. The researchers rather astronomers who are using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory for research are hosting a media...
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