NASA have crashed a spacecraft into the South Pole part of the moon in an attempt to throw up water/ice into the air.Another unmanned craft was sent to monitor the dust that went sent up after the crash."The $79m (£49m; 53m euro) mission is called LCROSS (the Lunar...
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The largest ring in the solar system has been found around Saturn by NASA's Spitzer Telescope. The source of the debris comprising the ring is thought to be Saturn's moon Phoebe that could release debris if hit by...
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UPDATE, Friday morning, Oct. 9, 8:45 a.m. -- The Moon bombing apparently came off with a fizzle, not a bang. As network anchors watched and waited breathlessly, the grainy images from NASA -- live video taken from the orbiting module and an infrared camera image...
Last day, while listening FM radio, a radio jockey commented that please send a bucket of water to my home, is there home delivery service for that Moon Water. Well this might be just a light comment on speculation regarding the availability of water on moon, and expenditure...
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NASA's Hubble Telescope has been repaired and upgraded, and several new Hubble images were revealed on the NASA Hubble Space Telescope website today. Hubble was first launched 19 years ago, in April 1990. It was...
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NASA used a combination of satellite images and advanced computer animation technology to create a virtual tour of Earth's frozen regions from space. The project started back in 2002, and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) has started updating the film since 7...
The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery has been cancelled once again. This time because of a faulty fuel valve. NASA said that fuelling had been partly completed when the launch was halted, but...
The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which was scheduled at 1:36 EDT on August 25th has been rescheduled. The launch was scrubbed due to rain and lightning. Discovery was to deliver a new Fridge and...
""In the first quarter of 2016, we'll prep and de-orbit the spacecraft," says NASA's space station program manager, Michael T. Suffredini. That's a polite way of saying that NASA will make the space station fall...
Im sure most people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, have heard about the Gary McKinnon case. In short, Gary is accused of penetrating over 90 unclassified Pentagon systems in 2001 and 2002 -- and allegedly crashing some of them. He states that he was looking for...
By Paul Lester18:40 August 19, 2009 PDT" Fresh evidence has been revealed to support the theory that life on Earth began in space. NASA's Stardust probe, a specially-designed-comet ‘chaser’, successfully...
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Saturn's rings will disappear from our view today. Saturn's ring system was formed 4.5 billion years ago, and have been loaded with 35 trillion-trillion tons of ice, mud, boulders, and tiny moons. While the stack...
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Julie Payette said her farewells to her fellow Canadian Robert Thirsk on the International Space Station and has started it's return to earth. The shuttle landed in Florida at 10:48 am EDT. Endeavour spend...
Listen to this candid conversation with legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin seen on C-Span . Mr Aldrin speaks of a mysterious potatoe shaped object orbiting a moon of Mars every 7 hours. He also...
21 July, 2009– " Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, sits behind the solar system's largest planet, April 2007. Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. (NASA: ESA/E Karkoschka (University of Arizona), fileman) " " An amateur astronomer from the small...
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