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Mining Asteroids - A New IndustryBethesda MD (SPX) May 02, 2012 This past Wednesday a new company, Planetary Resources (PRI), announced it is serious about searching the cosmos for the first mineable asteroid. Within two years PRI hopes to identify that historic near-Earth object (NEO), presumably soon to be mined for its valuable minerals. Within minutes of the public announcement media reporters were speculating that such asteroids contain precise metals such as gold and platinum. This kind of reaction is what Hollywood thrives on. In fact, film Direct ... read more |
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  'Faster-ticking clock' indicates early solar system may have evolved faster than we think Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from th ... more | .. |
  Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. ... more | .. |
  Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be de ... more | .. |
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 NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the pr ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries from the Dark Side of a Galaxy One of the world's most powerful cameras, SCUBA-2 is producing its first detailed images of our neighbouring galaxies, revealing previously undetected vast pockets of star formation where the next g ... more | .. |
 Meeting Converges On Gemini Observatory Recent And Potential Scientific Impact In mid-July 2012, astronomers from around the world will converge in San Francisco, California, to discuss recent and future science from the Gemini Observatory. From direct imaging of exoplanets, t ... more | .. |
 NMSU's Apache Point Observatory team observes record 103,000 spectra in March When the sun goes down, researchers and staff at New Mexico State University's Apache Point Observatory go into high gear, mapping the universe one pinpoint at a time for the Sloan Digital Sky Surve ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
Kremlin says Zelensky needs to be forced to make peace
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  U.S. backs another $680M for Israel shield As Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ramps up the threat of pre-emptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, and the prospect of Iranian retaliation, a key U.S. House panel has approved another $680 million for the Netanyahu government's anti-missile defenses. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin PAC-3 Missile Successfully Intercepts Cruise Missile Target During Integrated Flight Test Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile successfully intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile target yesterday at the Utah Test and Training Range in an unprecedented interoperability demonstration utiliz ... more | .. |
 A Cluster Within A Cluster The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favor ... more | .. |
 Old star, new trick The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers ... more |
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  Microbes Go Rafting on Floating Volcanic Rocks Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes ... more | .. |
 Record-Breaking Radio Waves from Ultra-Cool Star Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet ... more | .. |
 Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy are found in intergalactic space It's very difficult to kick a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the primary mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes requires ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Find Possible Secret of the Origin of Brown Dwarfs The origin of brown dwarfs is one of the great unsolved mysteries facing astrophysicists today. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western's Shantanu Basu (at left) and Universit ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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  Dragon Expected to Set Historic Course In response to SpaceX's announcement that it has delayed launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from April 30 to May 7, NASA issued the following statement from Associate Administrator ... more | .. |
  A highly symbolic mission is reflected in words and images on Ariane 5's payload fairing A satellite manufacturer's program milestone and an expression of hope for a country in recovery following its natural disaster are represented with words and symbolic logos on the payload fairing f ... more | .. |
  NEMA Welcomes Legislation on Federal Helium Policy NEMA welcomed introduction of the Helium Stewardship Act (S 2374) by Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and John Barrasso (R-WY), which will modernize and reform federal policy to better secure future su ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Completes Testing of Next-Generation Exploration Thruster Aerojet, reports that it has completed development testing of its MR-104H 100 lbf-class monopropellant hydrazine thruster. Working with Boeing Exploration Launch Systems and NASA Marshall Spac ... more |
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 NASA Releases Call For Phase II Visionary Advanced Concepts The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking proposals to continue promising studies for which it has supported the first phase. These cutting-edge concepts have the potential to ... more | .. |
 Plan to Counter Space Threats Proposed Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has proposed a special federal program to neutralize space threats, Roscosmos deputy head Vyacheslav Davydov said on Thursday. Threats at the planetar ... more | .. |
 A "mirror image" payload refueling for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission The two "sister" satellites for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 flight are poised for their fueling at the Spaceport this week, marking a new milestone in preparations for Arianespace's May 15 missi ... more | .. |
 India to ferry heaviest foreign satellite in August India will ferry two foreign satellites - French and Japanese - on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) rocket in August this year for a price, said a senior official. "The next ... more |
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  Scientists discover enzyme that could slow part of the aging process in astronauts New research published online in the FASEB Journal suggests that a specific enzyme, called 5-lipoxygenase, plays a key role in cell death induced by microgravity environments, and that inhibiting th ... more | .. |
  China launches two navigation satellites China successfully launched two satellites into space at 4:50 a.m. Beijing Time Monday, the 12th and 13th satellites for its Beidou global navigation and positioning network, the launch center said. ... more | .. |
 Redefining time Atomic clocks based on the oscillations of a cesium atom keep amazingly steady time and also define the precise length of a second. But cesium clocks are no longer the most accurate. That title has ... more | .. |
  BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012. The mating was performed to accurately posi ... more |
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 Ridiculously Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light as only 120 modest Sun-like stars. ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 is provided its "brains" and the "kick" for Arianespace's third mission of 2012 Initial build-up of the Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third heavy-lift mission in 2012 has reached a new milestone with integration of the "upper composite" - composed of its ESC-A cryogenic upper stag ... more | .. |
  Space Station's Robotic Crew Member Designed to Look, Move and Work Like a Human NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot, has successfully hitched a ride to the International Space Station. Built for the specific purpose of working on the space station, its robotic hands work like ... more | .. |
  Surviving the conditions on Mars Alpine and polar lichens could also survive on Mars. Planetary researchers at the German Aerospace Center simulated the conditions on Mars for 34 days and exposed various microorganisms to this envi ... more |
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