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Finding ET may require giant robotic leapUniversity Park PA (SPX) Apr 20, 2012 Autonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, who notes that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI - is in its 50th year. "The basic premise is that human space exploration must be highly efficient, cost effective, and autonomous as placing humans beyond low Earth orbit is fraught with political economic, and technical di ... read more |
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  Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt. ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Craters On Earth Give Clues In Search For Life On Mars Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study suggests. Tiny organisms have been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the U.S. w ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Left-Front Wheel Stabilized Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The solar insolation ... more | .. |
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  Lockheed Martin Completes Key Milestone on GeoEye's New Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation Earth-imaging satellite successfully initiated power-on testing for the GeoEye-2 spacecraft bus. This program milestone continues the tea ... more | .. |
  Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets New research suggests that billions of stars in our galaxy have captured rogue planets that once roamed interstellar space. The nomad worlds, which were kicked out of the star systems in which they ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact center of Messier 70, a globular cluster. Quarters are always tight in globular clusters, where the mutu ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew An international team of aquanauts will travel again to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to simulate a visit to an asteroid in the 16th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEE ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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  Australia-New Zealand Square Kilometre Array Site Is Already Producing World-Class Astrophysics CSIRO's Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar S ... more | .. |
 Hubble's panoramic view of a turbulent star-making region Several million stars are vying for attention in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula. 30 ... more | .. |
  US report urges easing rules on satellite exports Congress should ease restrictions on US satellite exports that are unnecessary and place US firms at a "disadvantage," the Pentagon and the State Department said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Mysterious 'dark matter' even weirder: astronomers Astronomers scanning the Milky Way said on Wednesday they were baffled when they failed to spot something invisible. ... more |
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Tim gets his feet wet ESA astronaut Timothy Peake will soon dive to the bottom of the sea to learn more about exploring space. A permanent underwater base almost 20 m below the waves off the coast of Florida will be Tim' ... more | .. |
  CU-Boulder study shows Greenland may be slip-sliding away due to surface lake melt Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the Uni ... more | .. |
  Russia to Test Second Glonass-K Satellite in 2013 Russia plans to begin testing its second Glonass-K navigation satellite in 2013, Grigory Stupak, the deputy head of the Russian Space Systems company producing navigation and other equipment for the ... more | .. |
  US museum to welcome space shuttle Discovery Discovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired US shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year US space flight program. ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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  Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids-made homes in ... more | .. |
 UC Berkeley Passes Management Of Allen Telescope Array To SRI Berkeley-Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes - most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) - scanned the Milky Way and oth ... more | .. |
 UK supports space innovation overseas Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts has announced a 6 million pounds co-funded grant for commercial products and services developments from space-based systems and technology. SSTL ... more | .. |
 NASA TV Reaches Bigger Audience With Encompass And SES SES has announced that Encompass Digital Media, a leading digital media service provider, has signed a capacity deal making NASA TV channels available to satellite TV providers and cable outlets thr ... more |
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  Robots guard S. Korea prison inmates South Korea has begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards by deploying them in an actual prison in Pohang, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Massive glitch moves magnetar modelling forward The chance discovery with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory, in 2004, of highly energetic X-rays emanating from a young neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, provided scientists with a chal ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Adjusts Orbit for a Closer Look at Mercury The MESSENGER mission successfully completed the first of two maneuvers designed to reduce the spacecraft's orbital period about Mercury. This new trajectory will pave the way for more detailed meas ... more | .. |
 Russian Ministry Backs Space Observatory Entry Proposal Russia's Education Ministry supports a proposal by Russian astronomers for the country to join the European Southern Observatory but an astronomy development program is required, Igor Protsenko, dir ... more |
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 NASA Satellite Movie Shows Great Plains Tornado Outbreak from Space Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains torna ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Names New Leader for Commercial Launch Services Business Lockheed Martin has announced that Robert Cleave has been named president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) effective May 1, 2012. Cleave succeeds Jack Zivic who is retiring at t ... more | .. |
 SpaceX said eyeing Texas launch site Private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. may add a small Texas town on the Gulf of Mexico to its list of rocket launch sites, documents show. ... more | .. |
 Designing the interplanetary web Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering t ... more |
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 Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions How hydrogen--the most abundant element in the cosmos--responds to extremes of pressure and temperature is one of the major challenges in modern physical science. Moreover, knowledge gleaned from ex ... more | .. |
  Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of c ... more | .. |
 A double arrival for Arianespace's next dual-payload Ariane 5 mission The two Lockheed Martin-built satellites for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 dual-payload mission are now at the Spaceport for a fast-paced launch campaign that will lead to the orbiting of JCSAT-13 ... more | .. |
 NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designated C/2009 P1 (Garradd), the unusually ... more |
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