Fourth 'habitable' planet close to home
EARTHLY NEIGHBOUR: Astronomers have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system, only 22 light-years from Earth.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from ABC Science
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Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other Side
Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous "Blue Marble" image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high resolution photograph ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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In the dark abyss, a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way
There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Discover Magazine
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Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake
After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand
Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Iran launches observation satellite: media
Iran on Friday launched an observation satellite into orbit above Earth, its third since 2009, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Video: How the View From a Comet Might Look
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet. The ambitious mission -- scheduled to enter orbit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January of 2014 and place a tiny lander ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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ScienceShot: Braking a Dead Star's Wild Spin
Magnetic fields may tame the most extreme pulsars
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Science Now
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Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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