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Atari U.S., one of the most iconic video game companies and the owner of hit classics like Pong, Asteroids, or the Tycoon franchises, has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to emerge as a new entity separated from its current owner – Atari S.A., a company formerly known as Infogrames.
Atari may have... |
21 January 2013
05:20 GMT |
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has given scientists more data about the Jovian Trojans, the packs of asteroids that orbit the sun following Jupiter's orbit. These asteroids are quite mysterious and scientists are trying to figure out how they formed and why are they following the orbit t... |
16 October 2012
08:35 GMT |
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Microsoft announced in late August that it has teamed up with Atari to allow users to play classic Atari games right in their browser, with no other software tweaks.
The company however calls for gamers to play the games at a one-off event “with live DJ sets at the pop-up Atari Arcade in Shoreditch.”
Th... |
5 October 2012
03:48 GMT |
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A multitude of high-resolution images collected by the NASA Dawn spacecraft have recently been pieced together, to form this amazing full-view of the asteroid Vesta, the largest in our solar system.
Dawn launched in September 2007, as the first mission destined to enter orbit around two different celestial bodies i... |
28 September 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that they want students to come up with names for a space rock that will be targeted by a 2016 NASA mission. Currently, the asteroid is called (101955) 1999 RQ36, which means that it's rather difficult to mention it in a fluent sentence.
In a little over three ye... |
5 September 2012
02:53 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have just released a new video showcasing Vesta, the largest asteroid in the solar system.
The clip was created from images taken by the Dawn orbiter, which arrived at the protoplanet in mid-July, 2011.
The images used to create this ... |
31 August 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Over the next 10 days, astronauts at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), in Houston, Texas, will be testing out the new Space Exploration Vehicles (SEV) prototypes the agency created, as part of the latest iteration of the Research and Technology Studies (RATS) program.
These iterations have been going on yearly si... |
22 August 2012
08:54 GMT |
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This seemingly complex NASA diagram illustrates the orbits of several important objects or classes of celestial bodies around the Sun. The star is obviously in the middle, in bright yellow. The three gray rings around it represent the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Naturally, the bright green circle shows ... |
30 July 2012
11:02 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, published in the July 12 online issue of the top journal Science, it would appear that most of the water currently present on our planet was brought here by cosmic impacts, via asteroids and comets. This proposal has significant implications for understanding Earth.
Scientists who ... |
13 July 2012
02:26 GMT |
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Officials at Planetary Resources Inc., a billionaire-backed enterprise that seeks to develop methods of harvesting platinum-based minerals and other substances from near-Earth asteroids, announce that they have just signed a collaboration contract with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.
The document stipul... |
13 July 2012
01:48 GMT |
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The original announcement that a billionaires-backed private company was set up with the express purpose of mining resources from near-Earth asteroids and other planets came as a shock to many a few weeks back, but also attracted a great deal of interest. This video was just released by the company.
Dubbed Planetary... |
12 July 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Now that companies are beginning to really ponder the possibility of exploiting the resources of the Moon, or near-Earth asteroids, a thorny issue is making its way into the spotlight, namely the legal framework for such endeavors, and the ownership problems that come with it.
Though other bodies in the solar system... |
11 July 2012
09:45 GMT |
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As the recent close flybys have demonstrated, asteroids can zip past our planet with only a few moments' notice, and this does not sit well with astronomers. While the recent incidents did not pose any danger, they did emphasize the need to build a comprehensive early-detection system.
This is precisely what in... |
29 June 2012
10:13 GMT |
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Named after the stone that allowed experts to crack the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Rosetta spacecraft was launched on March 2, 2004, on a rendezvous course with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. En route, it carried out a flyby of asteroid 21 Lutetia, producing a remarkable video.
The short clip is m... |
26 June 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Analyses conducted on some of Earth's most resilient organisms suggest that a theory called panspermia – which holds that life can spread between planets, star systems and galaxies by hitching rides aboard asteroids and other space rocks – may be true after all. When it was first proposed, most of t... |
26 June 2012
05:33 GMT |
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The asteroid 2012 LZ1, which gave Earth a close shave on June 14, is apparently much larger than astronomers calculated. Predictions for the flyby held that, were the object to hit, it would have caused only local damage. Now, experts say that the effects may have been significantly worse.
Since the object was disc... |
26 June 2012
03:56 GMT |
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There is currently a lot of ink being spilled over exploiting resources on other celestial bodies, such as near-Earth objects or the Moon. I, for one, don't think we should be doing this. Yes, it would be a cool thing to brag about, but our ways need to change before we start using up other bodies.Private compan... |
25 June 2012
11:19 GMT |
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According to a new atlas of the Martian surface, it would appear that the neighboring world is scarred by more than 635,000 big impact craters, which are distributed across the planet.
The new study classified as a large impact crater any crater that is over 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) in diameter. This is the largest ... |
16 June 2012
06:54 GMT |
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A University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) expert was recently part of a team that uncovered new evidence supporting the idea that a space impact was responsible for the disappearance of North American megafauna.
This occurred during a time called the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), which began roughly 12,900... |
13 June 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Astronomers believe that the asteroid 99942 Apophis, which has a fair chance of impacting our planet in 2036, could be averted from its dangerous course – if the need arises – by attacking it with lasers fueled by sunlight.
A constellation of spacecraft outfitted with such lasers would be able to redire... |
11 June 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Developing an international early asteroid warning system is an absolute necessity, the conclusions of a new report indicate. The document shows that the consequences of a potential impact would not be limited by national borders and political disagreements. The only way to defend ourselves against such threat is t... |
7 June 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Astronomers say that a space rock that has only recently been discovered flew past Earth earlier today, May 29, at 0700 UTC (03:00 am EDT), without posing any kind of dangers to the planet. The small asteroid passed within 14,440 kilometers (8,950 miles) of the surface.
This is one of the ten closest asteroid approa... |
29 May 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Using a combination of data obtained from three separate sources, an American astronomer has recently been able to determine the mass of a near-Earth object that is targeted by an upcoming mission.
For this investigation, Steve Chesley used readings collected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the NASA Spitz... |
25 May 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Eons ago, Mars underwent a period in which asteroid strikes were commonplace. Astronomers now propose that the large number of collisions may have been one of the primary factors that drove temperatures on the planet through the roof, eventually leading to a runaway global warming effect.
Understanding what happened... |
24 May 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Scientists have determined that most of the space impactors that struck Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus, during a time in our solar system's history known as the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), were asteroids.
The LHB was a tumultuous period that followed shortly after the emerging solar system's m... |
18 May 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Using data from an American telescope, scientists have recently created the most complete survey of potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system. The dataset includes information about the space rocks' total number, their origins, and the nature of the dangers they could pose to our planet.
The observat... |
17 May 2012
03:39 GMT |
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The recently announced startup Planetary Resources, whose main area of activity will be asteroid mining, has already attracted over 2,000 prospective employees. All of them want the chance to work in this emerging field, which was science-fiction just a few years ago.
Perhaps one of the things that lends so much cre... |
15 May 2012
09:16 GMT |
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At a conference held on Thursday, May 10, at the NASA Headquarters James E. Webb Auditorium, in Washington DC, experts presented the latest results obtained by the Dawn spacecraft. The mission is currently orbiting Vesta, the largest asteroid in our solar system.
At the meeting, scientists from numerous institutions... |
11 May 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) published a new paper in the May 4 issue of the top journal Science, detailing rover Opportunity's science operations at Endeavour Crater over the first four months since the robot got there.
The vehicle completed its i... |
4 May 2012
03:42 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts, led by NASA scientists, found that numerous asteroids the size of the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs struck our planet between 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago. This number was found to be a lot higher than initially calculated, the new study reveals.
Dinosaurs went ... |
26 April 2012
04:39 GMT |
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At a meeting held by the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, on April 25, experts provided an in-depth view of the contribution that the NASA Dawn orbiter brought to understanding Vesta, the largest asteroid in our solar system.
The object lies in the Inner Asteroid Belt (IAB), between the orbits of Mars... |
26 April 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Google co-founder Larry Page and renowned director James Cameron are among the investors in a newly-unveiled company, called Planetary Resources Inc. The purpose of this startup is to use advanced technologies to create spacecraft capable of mining asteroids.
Water and precious metals will be the main targets of th... |
24 April 2012
03:51 GMT |
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In a paper published in the April 23 online issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists propose that supposedly-alien geological features called black mats are, in fact, of terrestrial origin.
Before this study, these structures were regarded as evidence of prehi... |
24 April 2012
03:25 GMT |
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While massive asteroid impacts have the potential to cause global extinction events on the surface, they are apparently good news for microorganisms living below Earth's crust, a new study has uncovered.
The conclusion came after scientists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland conducted a study of an anc... |
17 April 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Astronomers say that our planet constantly has more than one moon. A new computer model indicates that objects other than the Moon enter orbit around our planet for various periods of time, before resuming their paths through the solar system.
The group, based at the Paris Observatory, explains that most of these mo... |
4 April 2012
09:54 GMT |
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Currently, asteroid deflection technologies are quasi-inexistent. Astronomers are painfully aware of that, so there is an ongoing effort to create some means of defending our planet, were it to come under threat. Researchers in Glasgow are now developing a technique for doing just that.
University of Strathclyde en... |
28 March 2012
04:32 GMT |
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A series of unusual surface features were recently discovered on the giant asteroid Vesta. Some of them were never before seen on a space rock, while others are very rare and, therefore, interesting to study. The images were collected by the NASA Dawn spacecraft.
The details the orbiter saw came unexpectedly for the... |
22 March 2012
03:35 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators from the Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, in France, recently provided a simple explanation for why some parts of the lunar crust contain swaths of highly magnetic material.
This was first discovered a... |
17 March 2012
05:29 GMT |
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A near-Earth object that flew very close to our planet earlier this year will return in 2013. During its next visit, asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass closer to Earth than many of the satellites currently in orbit.
Astronomers discovered it only after the rock passed our planet this year. Experts immediately calculated i... |
15 March 2012
11:57 GMT |
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The Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) has just been awarded an additional $4.1 million, in funds from the American space agency. The money will be used to improve the effort's ability to discover near-Earth objects that could pose a risk to our planet.
Based at the University of Arizona in Tucson (UAT), the CSS is con... |
15 March 2012
09:04 GMT |
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As expected, the closer we get to December 2012, the more nutjobs appear, warning about the end of the world at the hands of a planetary alignment, the planet Niburu, the shifting of Earth magnetic poles or axis, solar storms, the end of the Mayan calendar, a giant asteroid and so on.
Needless to say, for all ratio... |
8 March 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Lately, doomsayers have taken an interest in asteroid 2012 DA14, a near-Earth object (NEO) that they say will collide with our planet next year. Astronomers at NASA say that there is no chance of that happening any time soon, let alone next year.
Despite the fact that scientists have proven that the space rock is n... |
7 March 2012
05:12 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the Okayama University and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reports that constant collisions and bombardments by particles varying in size are responsible for making planets and space rocks grow. The new research paper, published in the latest issue of the esteemed j... |
5 March 2012
02:22 GMT |
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Astronomers are currently considering the possibility that a massive asteroid impact that occurred sometime in the distant past was responsible for destroying Mars' magnetic field. Theoreticians are currently trying to determine whether such a scenario is even possible.
There are several massive craters on the... |
2 March 2012
05:44 GMT |
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About 4 billion years ago, the Moon was battered by a rain of meteorites and asteroids, most likely from the Inner Asteroids Belt. A recent analysis of the craters these impacts produced reveals that the collisions occurred at twice the speed of more ancient impact events.
Experts were very keen on learning why thi... |
28 February 2012
04:25 GMT |
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In February 2040, a near-Earth object may pose a danger to our planet. The space rock carries the designation 2011 AG5, and is believed to be about 140 meters (450 feet) wide. While it's not on a direct collision course with Earth, experts are beginning to ponder methods of altering its course.
As the image to ... |
27 February 2012
10:58 GMT |
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The man who is widely credited with the development of the original Xbox home gaming console at Microsoft says that, down on its luck, publisher THQ lacked a strategy for the digital space, which lead to the deal that the company has with Innovative Leisure.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Seamus Blackley, who is the leader ... |
9 February 2012
20:21 GMT |
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According to the results of new observations conducted with the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, it would appear that the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way – called Sagittarius A* – is growing by nibbling on asteroids that stray too close to its surface.
The data indicate that the spa... |
9 February 2012
03:08 GMT |
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All space agencies in the world managed to conduct only 5 or 6 successful sample-return missions since 1969. RosCosmos was the most active, sending 7 spacecraft, and succeeding with 3. But the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent only one, and succeeded. Following the success of the first Hayabusa mission, ... |
1 February 2012
11:52 GMT |
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Planetary scientists say that the giant asteroid Vesta may contain large amounts of water-ice, which may be able to endure there for billions of years. The conclusion came from a new analysis of the protoplanet's surface, as well as its average temperatures.
The NASA Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting Vesta sin... |
26 January 2012
04:17 GMT |
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