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Science & Tech News tagged with Nasa

Nasa Proposes Robotic Rocket-Plane to Explore Mars
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Rocket, Mars, Mission, Robotic )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
Nasa is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it.
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"Hypernovas" - The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed
Science & Tech  (tags: Astronomers, galaxy, NASA, star, Universe )

Sophie
- 22 hours ago - dailygalaxy.com
Most astronomers today believe that one of the most plausible reasons we have yet to detect intelligent life in the universe is due to the deadly effects of local supernova explosions that wipe out all life in a given region of a galaxy.
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Cassini's Big Sky: View From the Center of Our Solar System
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, design, discovery, interesting, internet, nasa, news, NewTechnology, research, scientists, science, space, study, tech, technology, world, concept, humans )

PinkMindy
- 2 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Cassini recently revealed new data that appeared to overturn the decades-old belief that our solar system resembled a comet in shape as it moves through the interstellar medium (the matter between stars in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy).
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25 Everyday Technologies That Came From NASA
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, Technology, NASA, Discovery )

Sophie
- 2 days ago - onlinesciencedegrees.net
Many people do not realize that everything from toys to sunglasses and even horseshoes have benefitted from technologies originally intended for astronauts, shuttle flights, and other elements of space exploration.
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Icy Moon's Lakes Brim With Hearty Soup for Life
Science & Tech  (tags: space, technology, study, science, news, nasa, moon )

Katie
- 4 days ago - newscientist.com
Saturn's frigid moon Titan may be friendlier to life than previously thought. New calculations suggest Titan's hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms.
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Investigates the Sun's Cycle of Highs and Lows
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computer, concept, discovery, energy, interesting, nasa, NewTechnology, news, research, scientists, science, space, study, technology, world )

PinkMindy
- 7 days ago - astronomy.com
How intense will the next solar cycle be? Can we predict when a violent solar storm will blast Earth with energetic particles? Could a prolonged period of inactivity on the sun plunge Earth into a prolonged winter?
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LCROSS Finds Water on the Moon
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Space, Water )

Nancy
- 7 days ago - science.nasa.gov
At a press conference today, researchers revealed preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.
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Splash! NASA Moon Strikes Found Significant Water
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, discovery, water.moon, research, nasa, scientists )

Lone
- 13 days ago - chron.com
LOS ANGELES -- It turns out there's lots of water on the moon -- at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data
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Star Trek-Like Replicator? Electron Beam Device Makes Metal Parts, One Layer At A Time
Science & Tech  (tags: Electoniv Bean, Nasa, Engineers )

Nancy
- 16 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A group of engineers working on a novel manufacturing technique at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have come up with a new twist on the popular old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it."
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Spacecraft That Sails on Sunshine Aims for Lift-Off in 2010
Science & Tech  (tags: Space, news, Spacecraft, NASA, tech, technology, science )

Katie
- 16 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
It was a fitting tribute to Carl Sagan's imagination, optimism, and starry-eyed wonder. On Monday, which would have been Sagan's 75th birthday, the Planetary Society announced that it is pushing ahead with a plan for experimental spacecraft that will ride
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mercury
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Space, Spacecraft )

Nancy
- 16 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet.
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NASAs Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope Mapped a Glimpse of Space-Time
Science & Tech  (tags: space, technology, science, research, nasa, interesting, astronomy )

Sally
- 27 days ago - newsblaze.com
Such a model would violate Einsteins edict that all electromagnetic radiation - radio waves, infrared, visible light, X-rays and gamma rays - travels through a vacuum at the same speed.
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NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, test, space, rocket, lunch )

Katie
- 29 days ago - sciencedaily.com
NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex ..........
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Nasa Rocket Postponed By Weather
Science & Tech  (tags: Nasa, weather, Rocket )

Nancy
- 29 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The launch of a prototype rocket designed to replace the aging shuttle has been delayed by bad weather.
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New Nasa Rocket Prepares to Fly
Science & Tech  (tags: Nasa, rocket, Space )

Nancy
- 30 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over the future of the programme.
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