Exactly 15 years after the intrepid Giotto spacecraft swept past the nucleus of Halley’s Comet, ESA scientist Gerhard Schwehm shared his memories of past triumphs while looking forward to new […]
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Io’s volcanoes erase one dating method but may provide another
The amount of lava gushing from individual volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io dwarfs earthly comparisons, and the pace at which lava is repainting Io’s surface suggests a novel technique for […]
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First, direct observational evidence of a change in the Earth’s greenhouse effect between 1970 and 1997
Contact: Taslima Khan taslima.khan@ic.ac.uk 44-20-7594-6712 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Scientists from Imperial College, London, have produced the first direct observational evidence that the earth’s greenhouse effect increased […]
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Microbes flying across the Galaxy aboard meteorites
Don’t worry about contact with aliens from other solar systems-they may be our distant cousins. According to an American astronomer, there is a slim chance that microbes could be carried […]
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NASA JPL Student Robotics Competition
Tune in this Saturday to see 49 robots and their creators — 2,000 high school students — take over the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Complete with referees and cheering crowds, […]
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Greek ferry voyage to test EGNOS, Europe’s new satellite navigation system
On Friday 16 March, a ferry will set sail from the port of Piraeus, bound for the Greek island of Santorini with some special passengers and navigation equipment on board. […]
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Lincoln Laboratory instrument provides stunning views of Earth
Thanks in part to an instrument created by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft is sending back stunningly detailed images of the planet. Since its launch in November, […]
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Students Use VLA to Make Startling Brown-Dwarf Discovery
A group of summer students making a long-shot astronomical gamble with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Very Large Array (VLA) have found the first radio emission ever detected from a […]
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Deepest X-Rays Ever Reveal Universe Teeming With Black Holes
For the first time, astronomers believe they have proof black holes of all sizes once ruled the universe. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provided the deepest X-ray images ever recorded, and […]
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Free-flights of Air Force X-40A test vehicle planned as part of NASA’s X-37 flight demonstrator program
The first of up to seven free-flight tests of the X-40A, an 85 percent scale version of NASA’s X-37 technology demonstrator, is planned to begin this week at the Dryden […]
