Joe Rao : SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
Friday, August 1 is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts. On that date, the sun will be partially eclipsed over an immense area that includes western and central Asia, parts of northern and central Europe, all of Greenland and even a small slice of northeastern North America.
A total solar eclipse […]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by admin
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By KENNETH CHANG : Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears to have an active magnetic field generated by a molten iron core. And it has shrunk more than scientists thought.
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Posted on July 9th, 2008 by admin
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : WASHINGTON (AP) — When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal.
Information from Earth’s first space probes to hit the thick edge of the solar system […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by admin
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By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer
NASA unveiled a beefed-up redesign of a proposed moon rocket Wednesday, saying the Ares V spacecraft that is to carry astronauts to the lunar surface in 12 years will be around 38 stories tall and carry a heftier load than originally planned.
The rocket is to be about 20 feet longer […]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin
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By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer
Scientists believe NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission’s principal investigator said Thursday.
Crumbs of bright material initially photographed in the trench later vanished, meaning they must have been frozen water that vaporized after being exposed, […]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by admin
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By DENNIS OVERBYE : There is a lot of new territory out there in the cosmos, but nothing you would want to pitch camp on — yet.
About a third of all the Sun-like stars in our galaxy harbor modestly sized planets, according to a study announced Monday by a team of […]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by admin
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