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30Mar2012
How To Move An Asteroid
How To Move An Asteroid. Pioneering engineers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow are developing an innovative technique based on lasers that could radically change asteroid deflection technology. The research has uneart
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Apollo 11′s Engines Discovered
Apollo 11's Engines Discovered Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and founder of the private spaceflight company Blue Origin, has announced that he's located the F-1 engines that launched Apollo 11 to the moon. In the privately funded ve
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Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way
Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way Could there be ‘tens of billions’ of habitable worlds in our own galaxy? That’s the results from a new study that searched for rocky planets in the habitable zones around
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The First Photo From Space
The First Photo From Space. On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and
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NASA May Find Ice On Scorching Mercury
NASA May Find Ice On Scorching Mercury A year after it arrived in orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER started the second phase of its science mission March 18, and controllers plan to lower the craft's orbit in April through a serie
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Angry Birds In Space
Angry Birds In Space As, perhaps, you all know 'Angry Birds' is the most popular mobile game in the world. Since its launch in December 2009 on the IOS, the story of Chicken and pork animosity already hit on Android, Windows Ph
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Join Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Competition
Join Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition Over two decades in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has made a huge number of observations. Every week, we publish new images on the ESA/Hubble website. But hidden in Hubble’s huge
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Real ‘Flying Saucer’ Plans Date Back to 19th Century
Real 'Flying Saucer' Plans Date Back to 19th Century The classic 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still features the quintessential depiction of a flying saucer. As the local townspeople gaze upward and gawk in wonder, the a
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Planetary System
Astronomers Discover Ancient Planetary System A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consis
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Comets Seeded The Early Earth With Life
Comets Seeded The Early Earth With Life. Comets seeded the early Earth with the amino acids to kickstart life Jennifer G. Blank, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at the NASA/Ames Research
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Dude – Where’s My Spaceship?
Dude - Where's My Spaceship? A-lister Ashton Kutcher will be Virgin Galactic's 500th space tourism customer, Virgin boss Richard Branson announced on Monday. "I gave Ashton a quick call to congratulate and welcome him," Branson sa
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Space Tourism a $1 billion Industry By 2022
Space Tourism a $1 billion Industry By 2022 The Obama administration is preparing for a space tourism industry that is expected to be worth $1 billion in 10 years, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial sp
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Help Send Dennis To Space
Help Send Dennis To Space Space, the largest expanse imaginable. As the global population of Earth grows and the pool of resources dwindles, we must strive to live sustainably and embark into space to find new homes and settlem
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Earth’s Other Moons
Earth's Other Moons. Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter Moon, so beloved
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Last Week For Our ‘Deep Sky Package’
THIS IS OUR LAST WEEK - Definitely Finishes Friday 30 March. Introducing Our ‘DEEP SKY PACKAGE’ This Fantastic Dobsonian 200mm - 8 inch Reflecting Telescope Package. YOU GET A 200 mm (8 inch) Upgraded Dobsonian Reflecti
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