The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on it to search for planets, asteroids ...
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2020
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Astronauts completed their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2020
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A European spacecraft launched from South America Wednesday on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.
Astronomy
Dec 18, 2019
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Cranes hoist cargo onto the deck, power tools scream out and workers bustle through the maze of passageways inside the German icebreaker RV Polarstern, preparations for a yearlong voyage that organizers say is unprecedented ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2019
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Wittingly or not, major global corporations are helping fund sites that traffic in fake news by advertising on them.
Internet
Jan 29, 2017
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The first virus-hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research.
Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2016
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A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013 sent financial markets into a tailspin. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 143.5 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost more than ...
Other
May 20, 2015
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The European Space Agency received no signals from the Philae lander Saturday morning during a scheduled effort to establish communication, the mission chief said.
Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2014
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The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain.
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2014
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U.S. Army officials have withdrawn their intelligence network from a major testing exercise this fall because of software glitches, in the latest setback for the troubled system.
Security
Jul 21, 2014
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