Kepler announces 11 planetary systems hosting 26 planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple ...
Thu 26 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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8-meter-wide asteroid will pass close to Earth today
A small asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth tomorrow (January 27, 2012). Named 2012 BX34, this 11 meter- (36 feet-) wide 8 meter- (26-foot-) space rock (astronomers have updated their ...
9 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Asteroid shield won't be in time for 19-mile wide monster hurtling past Earth next week
Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project is expected to take some three years to complete.
4 hours ago from Daily Mail
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Russia 'to postpone next manned space launch'
Russia is set to pospone the next two manned launches for the International Space Station (ISS) for several weeks due to technical problems with the Soyuz spaceship, an industry source told ...
12 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues
Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas &M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps ...
Thu 26 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Kepler uncovers planetary menagerie
Today NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 26 new planets (above, green). The new worlds, comparable to the giant planets of our solar system (blue), nearly double the number of ...
7 hours ago from Nature News Blogs
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Toronto teens send Lego man into space: video
A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students.
Wed 25 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology ...
14 hours ago from PhysOrg
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What really happened prior to 'Snowball Earth'?
In a study published in the journal Geology, scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggest that the large changes in the carbon isotopic ...
8 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Newt 'Lightyear' Gingrich promises moon base by 2020
Newt Gingrich says he will get a moon base built by the end of 2020 if he is elected president - he faces a few tricky hurdles
Thu 26 Jan 12 from Newscientist
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