News tagged with exploration
Will the U.S. continue to 'reach for the stars'?
With the space shuttle program winding down — Discovery returned from its final mission in March, Endeavor is scheduled for its last flight this Friday, and Atlantis should launch at the end of June — ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Gulf anniversary renews debate on Arctic drilling
(AP) -- A year after the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, some experts are pondering the next doomsday scenario - a massive oil well blowout in the icy waters off Alaska's northern coast.
Apr 23, 2011 |
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Ultraviolet spotlight on plump stars in tiny galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies.
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Could low-cost space missions keep astronomy aiming high?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether in the present so-called 'age of austerity' or more generous times, arguing for funds for space exploration can sometimes be hard and constrained budgets mean that some excellent scientific ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2011 |
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India launches three satellites on single rocket
India launched a rocket carrying three satellites into orbit on Wednesday in its latest effort to gain a share of the global commercial space market.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Brazil, a new haven for high tech investors
A longtime exporter of raw materials and a hub for foreign investors, Brazil is now seeking capital for cutting-edge research in oil and information technology.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Mars rover's 'Gagarin' moment applauded exploration
(PhysOrg.com) -- A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Russia celebrates Gagarin's conquest of space
Russia on Tuesday marked a half century since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the greatest victory of Soviet science which expanded human horizons and still remembered by Russians as their finest ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite ferrets out planet-hunting targets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond ...
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Best Web browser? Google's Chrome beats Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer
There is no computer program used as often as a Web browser. Yet too many users never give the browser any thought, spending years with the default program installed on a once-new computer.
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Commemorative space shuttle cartoon created
Comic strip artist Brian Basset has created a drawing depicting his characters, Red and Rover, racing alongside the space shuttle as it lands for the final time. After 30 years and more than 130 missions, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Renewal of a life and physical sciences research at NASA could facilitate longer, farther human space missions
By elevating its life and physical sciences research program, NASA could achieve the biological understanding and technical breakthroughs needed to allow humans to be sent deeper into space, including to Mars, says a new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Web certificate fraud bears Iranian fingerprints
Hackers from Iran are suspected of swiping authentication data from a US computer security firm in an attempt to impersonate popular Google or Yahoo! sites.
Mar 24, 2011 |
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New space suit to be tested in Antarctica
University of North Dakota aerospace engineer and researcher Pablo de Leon is part of a unique mission to test a UND planetary exploration suit -- the NDX-1 -- at a remote military base in Antarctica. The team departed for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Mozilla unleashes sleek new Firefox Web browser
A fast, sleek new version of Firefox was released on Wednesday to vie Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Google Chrome in the fiercely competitive market for Web browsing software.
Mar 22, 2011 |
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