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1. Is the Moon Really a 'Been There Done That' World?

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   ...  it's that the Moon is perplexingly different from our perceptions of the past 40 years. The discovery of water and volatiles across the surface and in the permanently shadowed regions at the poles ... Monday, 26 July 2010

2. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

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   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

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   ... they discover a way to travel back in time to witness a long-ago event? To make the discovery, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research actually used the Herschel Space Telescope's ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

4. Robonaut Getting Ready for ISS Mission (Video)

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   ... is ready for its first mission. R2 will become a permanent resident of the International Space Station, and will launch on space shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-133 mission, currently planned for ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010

5. Searching for the Elusive Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors

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   ... This reliability led to the discovery that our universe was not only expanding but accelerating, which in turn led to the discovery of dark energy. There's just one minor detail: nobody knows for ... Monday, 12 July 2010

6. Launched on the Fourth of July

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   Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4, 2006 to begin their journey to the International Space Station during the STS-121 mission. The shuttle made history ... Friday, 02 July 2010

7. Graphite 'Whiskers' Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

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   ... period in the solar system's early history. "We were really surprised at the discovery of graphite and graphite whiskers," Steele said. "We were not expecting to see anything like ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

8. New Dates for Final Shuttle Launches

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   Discovery on the launchpad in March, 2010 for the STS-131 mission. Credit: Nancy Atkinson If you are tentatively planning to attend one of the final shuttle launches, the uncertainty on launch dates just ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

9. Slingshot

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... million years earlier. The discovery of this object comes from a large, multi-wavelength survey, known as the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). This survey includes data from Chandra, HST, XMM- Newton, ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

10. New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates

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    ... group discovery of exoplanets ever. (...) Read the rest of New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates (515 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

11. Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly

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    ... years—within such circumstellar disks, and experts say that this discovery validates the theory that these unique, gaseous disk structures can be used as a sort of “fingerprint” to characterize their embedded ... Thursday, 10 June 2010

12. Delays Likely for Final Two Shuttle Missions

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... mission, STS-133 Discovery, currently slated for September 16, could be delayed until October. As we reported yesterday, the first hint of Endeavour's delay came from the announcement of a new opportunity ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

13. New Discovery Supports Possibility of Microbial Life on Mars

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    Lost Hammer Spring on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Credit: Dept. Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Montreal. The discovery of methane-eating bacteria in a very unique region ... Friday, 04 June 2010

14. ASU Instrument Helps Identify Rare Rock On Mars

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    ... the discovery un ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

15. The Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery

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    ... however, was a single meteor, not a procession. Compounding the problem, the 1859 fireball was a daylight meteor, whereas Whitman describes the procession as happening at night. The Art of Rediscovery A ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

16. New space station crew will bid farewell to shuttle

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    ... only two more scheduled missions before its retirement: a flight by Discovery in September and a flight by Endeavour in November, with both set to dock with the ISS. Yurchikhin, Wheelock and Warner will ... Monday, 31 May 2010

17. Post-Mortem Of A Comet

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... unexpected discovery has raised new questions about how these 'dustbins' of the early Solar System really formed. ... Monday, 31 May 2010

18. Hinode Discovers The Origin Of White Light Flare

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    ... research associate at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, made its discovery by quantitatively analyzing an X-class solar flare, which was observed by two successive, solar-observing satellites: Hinode ... Monday, 31 May 2010

19. Novel Observing Mode On XMM-Newton Opens New Perspectives On Galaxy Clusters

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the 'shadow' they cast on the Cosmic Microwave Background. The discovery, made possible thanks to a novel mosaic observing mode recently introduced on ESA's X-ray observatory, opens a new window to ... Monday, 31 May 2010

20. 'Out Of Whack' Planetary System

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    Houston TX (SPX) May 28, 2010 - The discovery of a planetary system "out of whack," where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other, was reported by a team of astronomers led by Barbara ... Sunday, 30 May 2010