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February 13, 2012 2:01 PM
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A Mystery Meteorite From the House of Sting
Rock recovered from musician's property may shed light on ice age Britain
Russia Explores New Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars
Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of the Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft after the first model failed to escape Earth orbit and...
January 19, 2012 4:43 PM
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Crafoord Prizes Announced
Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the four winners of the 2012 Crafoord Prize, an annual award that rotates between the disciplines of astronomy, mathematics, geosciences, biosciences,...
Giant Telescopes Face NSF Funding Delay
For nearly a decade now, two university consortia in the United States have been in a race to build two ground-based telescopes that would be several times bigger than...
Europe's Euclid Mission Gives NASA a Tiny Role
For nearly a decade, officials at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have discussed a shared mission to study dark energy. But any substantive collaboration on Europe's dark...
ESA Picks Up Signal From Defunct Mars Probe
The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that last night it received a signal from the stricken Mars probe Phobos-Grunt. The Russian mission was launched on 8 November but...
Congress to Keep Funding NASA's Webb Telescope
Congress appears to have preserved funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill...
Engine Trouble Leaves Russian Phobos Probe Stranded in Orbit
Russia's first solar system exploration mission since 1996 hangs in the balance today as the probe failed to ignite its engines to start the journey to Mars. The mission...
October 28, 2011 2:36 PM
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Whew! U.S. Earth-Observing Satellite Actually Makes It Into Orbit
Third time's the charm. Climate and weather researchers are breathing a bit easier today with this morning's successful launch of a NASA satellite that will provide data to the...
October 27, 2011 11:04 AM
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In Announcing Comet Crack-Up NASA Displays the Write Stuff
The comet Elenin, never more than a modest celestial ice ball, has broken into even smaller pieces, NASA announced 25 October.
October 5, 2011 11:37 AM
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European Space Agency to Probe Dark and Light
Europe will launch two missions to study the sun and the mysterious "dark energy" that is speeding the universe's expansion in launch slots slated for 2017 and 2019. The two...
October 4, 2011 10:50 AM
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Giant Radiotelescope Competition Nears Decision Point
The project to build the largest radiotelescope the world has ever seen, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), took a key step last month when the two candidate sites, southern...
NSF Prepares for Review of Two Giant Telescopes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is gearing up for a long-awaited competition between two California-based consortia seeking federal support to build the next giant ground-based telescope. But a perception...
September 8, 2011 11:32 AM
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U.S. Planetary Scientist Admits Attempted Espionage
A one-time principal investigator on a NASA mission that is still orbiting the moon has admitted trying to sell classified materials to an FBI employee posing as an Israeli...
September 1, 2011 2:00 PM
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NASA Aims to Protect Apollo Artifacts From Next Lunar Arrivals
NASA has begun wrestling with how to safeguard the historic and scientific value of more than three dozen sites on the moon. These remnants of America's golden era of...
September 1, 2011 11:54 AM
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Academy Panel Urges Greater Focus on Space Junk
Traveling along with the space station and hundreds of satellites is a swarm of more than 16,000 bits and pieces of rocket parts traveling at high velocities. Any one...
Webb Telescope Delayed, Costs Rise to $8 Billion
It's hardly the most opportune time to announce a huge cost overrun for a major science facility. But last week NASA told Congress that its proposed successor to Hubble,...
July 22, 2011 2:17 PM
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Geologic Enigma Is Target of Next Mars Rover
With the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum providing a suitably themed backdrop, NASA officials announced today that its next Mars rover, Curiosity (a.k.a. Mars Science Laboratory), will be...
Europe Downscales Monster Telescope to Save Money
The world's biggest telescope is getting smaller—but more affordable. The designers of the future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) have decided to shrink the telescope's primary mirror from a...
NASA Aims to Grab Asteroid Dirt in 2020
Today NASA announced the next medium-class science mission to explore the solar system. The winner of a three-way competition is a mouthful: Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith...
May 25, 2011 4:13 PM
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NASA Backs Bush-Era Space Capsule
NASA's new spacecraft for exploring space beyond the low Earth orbit is not so new. Late yesterday the agency announced that its proposed Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which is...
May 25, 2011 2:13 PM
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Did Kennedy Privately Denigrate the Moon Shot?
The Atlantic reviews transcripts of newly released tapes of President Kennedy in the White House: The space program is one of President John F. Kennedy's great legacies but he...
New Consortium to Run Arecibo Observatory
After 4 decades under the direction of Cornell University, the fabled Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will have a new manager. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to...
May 20, 2011 12:28 PM
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Slideshow: Where on Mars Should NASA Send 'Curiosity' Probe?
Scientists who next year will be searching for signs of ancient life on Mars using NASA’s Curiosity rover (a.k.a. Mars Science Laboratory) are huddling today near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
U.K. Parliament Panel Slams Physics, Astronomy Cuts
British parliamentarians have expressed concerns about the impact last year’s government funding cuts will have on the future of astronomy and particle physics in the country. When combined with some...
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