Asteroid Passes Just 8,700miles From Earth – With Only 15 Hours Warning

Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach. Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away But [...]

Space Blobs Are Pubescent Galaxies

Mysterious space blobs aren’t infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they mostly consist of galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered. A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other space and ground telescopes comes up with an explanation for these high-energy glowing blobs that have been observed for about a [...]

Space Shuttle Lands Safely In California

Crew of seven astronauts completes successful 13-day mission to fix Hubble space telescope. The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven returned to Earth today, ending their successful Hubble space telescope repair mission in California after stormy weather prevented a return to Nasa’s home base in Florida. Mission control waited as long as possible [...]

Recycling Urine To Water

At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind. Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said “cheers,” clicked drinking [...]

Earth-Like Planets

In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers have zeroed in on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realised that a neighbouring planet discovered [...]

Earlier Lunch Of Space Shuttle

NASA is aiming to launch the final space shuttle mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope a day earlier than planned to avoid a potential schedule conflict at the Florida launch site, officials said on Thursday. If approved by U.S. space agency managers next week, the shuttle Atlantis would lift off on May 11 at [...]

The Outer Edges

A glance into a cloudless night sky will usually show a handful of stars. But incredible pictures from Nasa’s new telescope show a galaxy of millions. The powerful Kepler telescope was designed to search for unknown planets among more than 100,000 stars in the Milky Way. Kepler’s first image reveals a vast star field in [...]

North Korea Threatens “Strong Steps” If U.N. Acts

North Korea warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that it would take “strong steps” if the 15-nation body took any action in response to Pyongyang’s launch of a long-range rocket. “If the Security Council, they take any kind of steps whatever, we’ll consider this is (an) encroachment on our sovereignty and the next option [...]

Facility In Sandusky 80% Done

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is now more than 80 percent done dismantling its Plum Brook Station here, a 12-building campus that once played a vital role in the nation’s development of nuclear-propelled rockets. The space agency will have spent between $210 million and $220 million returning the site to a clean, grassy field by the [...]

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