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A renowned publication, “Epoch Times,” seems to be giving some serious credit to Chinese bloggers who watched closely and thoroughly the footage that showed the Shenzhou VII crew's mission and Zhai Zhigang's walk in space. Perhaps too thoroughly, since they came up with all sorts of mismatches ... |
9 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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A small number of scientists defines space dust as the observable portion of dark matter. Space dust is comprised of small particles (about 0.1 mm) which reflect light on a very large scale. This is what can be seen of dark matter, not observable directly, but its hypothetical effects have been noticed.Space dust, al... |
3 October 2008
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As researchers finally conducted their first direct measurement of a young, far galaxy's magnetic field, the result shocked them, since it was found to be ten times stronger than the Milky Way's, exactly the opposite of what they had originally predicted.The 6.5 billion light years away young galaxy DLA-3C2... |
2 October 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Astronomers have puzzled the international scientific community once again by announcing that Earth and its surrounding solar systems may exist in some sort of “bubble,” inside which the flow of space and time is altered compared with the outside world. This contradicts the Copernican principle, which sta... |
1 October 2008
08:44 GMT |
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September 29th, the “Magnificent 7” European scientific program was presented to the public. It is the joint effort of seven bold projects to address some of the most difficult topics raised by astroparticle physics, such as dark matter, cosmic rays' origin, gravitational waves or the reasons behind ... |
30 September 2008
07:09 GMT |
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The three astronauts that have just carried out China's most important space mission returned home on Monday. They were welcomed as national heroes, as they offered their country another solid ground in order to be perceived as an ascending world power.Millions of Chinese were able to follow every step of the mi... |
30 September 2008
06:08 GMT |
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Last Wednesday, the first American ever to have reached orbit, John Glenn, and the first man ever to have set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, took the floor at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC., during the festivities that marked 50 years of activity for NASA. 78-year-old Armstrong saluted the... |
29 September 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Although the space ambitions of the EU members are quite high, granting them the necessary funds still comes as a problem, since many of the EU states decided having more important issues to spend their money on.There is growing concern related to the fact that many of the EU member states still prove to be quite rel... |
29 September 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major problem: lunar dust. As professor La... |
26 September 2008
07:45 GMT |
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Thursday, September 24th, China launched its third crewed mission into Earth's orbit. However, the three-man team is tasked to walk in the outer space for the first time in the nation's history. President Hu Jintao assisted the 9:10 pm (13:10 GMT) launch at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northw... |
26 September 2008
04:53 GMT |
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The great lift currently developed by Japanese researchers is a dream come true for generations of SF authors, as it will plunge its users 62.000 miles (100.000 km) high into outer space. The cage of the lift requires top-notch technology materials and engineering, as it will slide along 22.000 mile (35.000 km) ... |
24 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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A group of scientists successfully identified naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules ever found in the outer space, which could indicate that other prebiotic chemical components involved in the appearance of life on Earth may have been present in the matter that formed the solar system.The group of researcher... |
22 September 2008
09:44 GMT |
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As Itar-Tass news agency reports, Anatoly Perminov, chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency, visited Caracas in order to talk to Venezuelan and Cuban officials. Within the recent few months, Russia has made efforts to improve its relations with both of these countries, as none of them is on good terms with Ame... |
20 September 2008
07:08 GMT |
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So far, this seems to be the dimmest galaxy in the universe ever discovered. Shining only with the brightness of less than 350 suns, which is very little for an entire galaxy, it is believed to be filled with dark mater in enormous quantities. Segue 1, as it is called, is one of only about 2 dozen dwarf galaxie... |
19 September 2008
06:14 GMT |
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This hypothetical form of energy is supposed to fill all the space and it continuously pushes its elements apart, increasing the universe's expansion rate. It is one of the most important things that LHC scientists are eager to prove. The standard model of cosmology claims that the universe is comprised 74%... |
11 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Although lacking a spine and a skeleton, these are real animals and are spread all over the planet. The tardigrades (better known as water bears), famous for their sturdiness, have recently been sent on a trip to space in order to prove precisely that feature. Surprisingly, not only that they survived but they were e... |
9 September 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts and Maxis have released a new gameplay video of Spore, featuring the game's Producer, Kip Katsarelis. The video depicts Spore's space stage, at which point the player will have evolved its creatures into complex society. The player becomes the leader of the spacefaring civilization / empire,... |
27 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Fishlabs, the German-based 3D mobile game developer, announced the release of Galaxy on Fire 2, the sequel to the award-winning game with the same title (minus the "2", of course). Following the success of the first Galaxy on Fire, its second part is set to offer a new and spectacular space adventure. The story of th... |
31 July 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
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Starting with 2011, the Japanese company First Advantages will be able to provide wedding services at altitudes as high as 100 kilometers above ground. First Advantages recently signed a contract with the American aerospace company Rocketplane, which will be in charge of providing the means to propel the soon to be h... |
1 July 2008
07:07 GMT |
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The issue with optical devices in space is that the extremely low pressure determines the adhesive that keeps them in place to release gases that either contaminate the lenses or move the lenses a couple of microns out of their original setting place. The same effect can be obtained while subjecting the adhesive mate... |
14 May 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Almost four decades of Japan using the space for non-military applications are about to end on Friday with the introduction of a bill said to give the military space access. The action came with the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jiantao, whose country shot down one of its weather satellites last year, spreading f... |
12 May 2008
03:38 GMT |
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The last big impact experienced by Earth occurred 65-million-year ago in Chicxulub, the Yucatan peninsula (southeastern Mexico) and doomed the world of the dinosaurs. If a similar asteroid would shock again with our planet, our very existence would be menaced. Smaller asteroids frequently hit Earth. For instance, the... |
30 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Scientists looking for life in space make complicated calculations of where life could exist in the Universe and on which of the many planets, satellites and other space bodies. Then they come up with snore-inducing studies about carbon compositions, water presence, ideal temperatures, and light exposures. But the pe... |
23 April 2008
05:31 GMT |
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On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a Sputnik 2 spacecraft carrying the first animal in space, a dog called Laika. The animal died a few hours after returning on Earth, probably due to stress and overheating caused by the thermal control system of the Sputnik spacecraft. Yesterday, Russian officials unveile... |
12 April 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Whether it was the aliens or Russian fellow cosmonaut Leonid Brezhnev, it is unknown, however what is certain is that seven years after becoming the first man into space, Yury Gagarin died during a training flight with a Mig-15 spacecraft, aged 34. There have been a lot of theories over the years related to what kill... |
28 March 2008
11:22 GMT |
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If you are asking yourself the same question that Yasuhiro Togai posed a couple of years ago, then you should probably know that the answer is 'Yes! Boomerangs can fly in space just as well as they do back here on Earth.' Yasuhiro Togai is a Japanese world boomerang champion, and just before the space shutt... |
21 March 2008
10:27 GMT |
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This is the first time when an electrical soliton wave was found in space and measured by the Cluster mission. The so-called soliton waves are a special type of wave which travel great distances without changing shape. The term soliton wave was first coined by John Scott Russell in 1834, while observing that at the b... |
19 March 2008
11:59 GMT |
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It may seem rather strange, but meteorites - especially iron ones - with gem intrusions are extremely valuable items for collectors. Some of these space rocks may routinely exceed prices of one million US dollars on the market, while less valued items make their way to museums. Don't even think that thieves will... |
19 March 2008
05:39 GMT |
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The object now known as 2008 EB61 has been officially classified by the International Astronomical Union as the latest found asteroid. The discovery was made by Ryan Gallagher and Robbyn Kindle from the Forest Hill and North Richland Hills respectively, on March 9, after spotting a small feature of a unidentified spa... |
18 March 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Wow. This guy must have 30-40 vision to spot that iPod while glancing over some hi-res photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The space shuttle is currently on low-Earth orbit, docked to the International Space Station, meaning that the iPod is still there.The news comes courtesy of TUAW reader Walter who has spotted... |
17 March 2008
12:28 GMT |
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And as if we weren't all full of advertisements, someone had the bright idea to broadcast one into space. The campaign was initiated by the University of Leicester and is called Doritos 'You Make It, We Play It', which basically means that some lads in the United Kingdom will have the opportunity to cr... |
10 March 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Recently, the space strategy genre has really received a shot in the arm. On the one hand, we have the excellent TBS that is Galactic Civilizations, together with its expansion Dark Avatar. On the other hand, the recent release of Sins of a Solar Empire has offered players a "spiritual" successor to the Homeworld ser... |
3 March 2008
02:30 GMT |
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Mining diamonds from Earth's crust is a messy business, especially if you consider that they are rather rare on the surface. Scientists predict that larger amounts of diamonds may be found in our planet's inner regions where they usually form; however, the enormous pressure inside the Earth and the great de... |
27 February 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Almost 40 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission allowed the first humans to land on the Moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969), after a four days space trip, marking one of the most important achievements in the history of mankind. Now NASA intends to build a human colony at the south pole of the Moon, so... |
22 February 2008
06:26 GMT |
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On Earth we are protected from radiation by the planet's magnetic field and its thick atmosphere, however astronauts in Earth's orbit are not so lucky, and may receive doses of radiation while in space higher than if they were supposed to remain on the surface of the planet. Though not lethal on short perio... |
13 February 2008
08:26 GMT |
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One of the most anticipated real time strategy (RTS) titles has finally been launched to game shops across the globe, while a Collector's Edition can be purchased online from the official Sins of a Solar Empire website. So if you are a real time strategy fan and you'd like to try a game that combines the de... |
6 February 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Ever wondered how future astronauts will drink their coffees when they wake up? Don't say they will use cups, because they have already tried that and its not very funny to get hot coffee all over your face. On Earth, the powerful gravitational field solves pretty much of this problem. Liquids are contained into... |
21 January 2008
04:00 GMT |
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It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a MMO game to appeal to the next generation of game-addicted scientists and e... |
21 January 2008
03:49 GMT |
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After the press conference that took place in the wake of the launch of the first Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 in October last year, during which a Chinese official stated that the Republic of China had no scheduled mission to send a man on the Moon, now the Chinese Space program picks up the speed and plans to... |
8 January 2008
10:59 GMT |
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Researchers have always wanted better and bigger tools to explore the immensity of the universe. Bigger telescopes, for example, can be used to obtain higher resolution pictures of extremely remote galaxies and stars, to observe and better understand how the early universe was like. And despite the levels of federal ... |
15 November 2007
07:43 GMT |
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Named in 2002, after NASA's second administrator, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, which will be created as an improvement of the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope is planned to be launched in 2013, from an Ariane 5 rocket, and is the result of the collaboratio... |
29 October 2007
09:07 GMT |
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This week-end you will get yourselves launched into space and that's because a new game from the StarWraith 3D Games ended up in my hands. I'm talking about the new Evochron Renegades.This game is basically another sequel, which follows other game called Evochron Alliance. Alliance belongs to the same categ... |
26 October 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Another space enigma has been solved by a team at the University of Arizona: what causes the powerful bursts from "magnetars", the most magnetic objects in space. These odd neutron stars are so superdense that the Sun's mass can be packed into a body which has the size of the Manhattan Island. Still, their magne... |
21 September 2007
07:20 GMT |
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