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Glimpse of Earth as seen from afar »
Posted by: SenorCoconut 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Lunar eclipse paints portrait of Earth that could aid hunt for distant habitable planets.
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Forty years since the first picture of earth from space »
Posted by: altnrg 10 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Earthrise, December 1968 the first picture of our world taken from space was published 40 years ago this week and still retains its haunting power.
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Shuttle Set to Lift Off With Station Parts »
Posted by: altnrg 8 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The space shuttle Discovery is set to lift off Wednesday night on a two-week mission, carrying a replacement part for a water recycler and a ...
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Revealed: Saturn\'s secret \'doughnut\' ring ... big enough to contain one billion Earths »
Posted by: Diane_Steward 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The 'super-sized' halo was found by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope. To get a sense of its size it has a vertical height which is ...
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Revealed: Saturn\'s secret \'doughnut\' ring ... big enough to contain one billion Earths »
Posted by: Diane_Steward 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
The 'super-sized' halo was found by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope. To get a sense of its size it has a vertical height which is ...
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Gene and Majel Barrett Roddenberry to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before," Forever »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
In mid-December, the First Lady of Star Trek, Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away of leukemia at the age of 76, joining her husband, Star Trek ...
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World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains »
Posted by: myfairlady 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the ...
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A behind-the-scenes look at building Ares I-X »
Posted by: myfairlady 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Science & Technology
NASA's first flight test of its Ares I-X booster is only slated to last two minutes, but it represents the culmination of years of ...
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India may abandon lunar mission after radio contact lost_English_Xinhua »
Posted by: monicachenoa 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-11 blasts off carrying India's
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first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 from the Satish Dhawan space
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Orbital Gas Station Puts Moon, Mars in Reach »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
While debate swirls over whether the United States should stick with plans for a base on the moon or head straight to Mars, members of ...
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Why stars become suupernovas »
Posted by: IsraGeek 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Research by astronomers now explains why a certain star -- more than a million times brighter than the sun -- exploded, though it shouldn't have, and ...
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100 rules for would-be spacemen »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
No scars, no history of serious illness in the last three generations of your family, and no tooth cavities. These are amongst the 100 health ...
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13 spacefliers have to share one Toilet on station, plus another on shuttle »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded ...
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New Study Reveals 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was Caused By A Comet »
Posted by: JessicaLaurie 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere ...
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One Giant Leap for Twitter As Astronaut Tweets From Space »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Depending on how you looked at it, it was either a small step, or a big leap for Twitter, as NASA astronaut Mike Massimino sent ...
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