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In this Jan. 28, 2004 photo provided by NASA/JPL of a photo shot by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. NASA is ending efforts to revive the sand-trapped rover Spirit, which has been silent for more than a year most likely... |
"It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars." David Latham -- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics One of the most intriguing results of the Kepler Mission is the... |
Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, astronomers using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope have observed. The... |
NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to develop a new deep space vehicle to send astronauts on expeditions to an asteroid, and then on to Mars. The spaceship, known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), will be based on designs... |
How could we assess the intelligence of an extraterrestrial civilization? A team of Spanish and Australian researchers have come up with the answer. They have taken a first step towards use a scientific method to measure the intelligence of a... |
In the 80s and 90s, a lot of effort was put into banning chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, a family of organic compounds that like to devour the ozone that's protecting us all from dying of skin cancer. A couple decades later,... |
“Columbus forced everyone to rethink, redesign and rebuild their world view.That’s what we’re doing here. To put it in 15th-century terms, we’ve reached the Canary Islands." Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astrophysics and director of Harvard University’s Origins of Life Initiative... Provided by The Daily Galaxy |
