SPACE

NASA Finds Six-Planet Solar System

A NASA team has found multiple planets in a distant solar system - dubbed Kepler-11 - transiting a sun-like star located about 2,000 light years away from Earth.

NASA Mission Discovers New Asteroids, Comets

This collage shows those 20 new comets all together in a kind of family portrait
NASA said its Near-Earth Object WISE mission has discovered 20 comets and more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, in addition to 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs).
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Top ten blocked sites by business houses in 2010

A study from DNS-resolution service OpenDNS, 2010 Report on Web Content Filtering and Phishing details the sites companies were most likely to be blocked last year, be it social networking websites or sites that have a reputation for fostering procrastination.

NASA's WISE Probe Catches Speeding Star

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite has captured an image of a star that is flying through space faster than a rocket launches from the pad.
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Android Smartphone Goes To Space

Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology have developed a satellite containing a smart phone payload that will be launched into orbit around the Earth later this year.
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Second Sun coming in 2012?

Earth is likely to have second sun in next few weeks, at least temporarily, according to reports of Australian daily news.com.au.

Apollo flag sells big at auction

American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, famously characterized the feat as, One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Gardening in Space: Directional Root Growth Study

Gardening in space has been part of the International Space Station (ISS) from the beginning. The latest experiment is Hydrotropism and Auxin-Inducible Gene expression in Roots Grown Under Microgravity Conditions, known as HydroTropi. HydroTropi is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)-run study that looks at directional root growth.
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U.S. warns on China's cyber, space capabilities

Advances by China's military in cyber and anti-satellite warfare technology could challenge the ability of U.S. forces to operate in the Pacific, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in prepared remarks on Friday during a visit to Japan.

Space Tourists To Launch In 2013

Space tourists will have the chance to strap in and fly to orbit beginning in 2013, as the company that sent up the first space tourists comes back from hiatus.

Gigantic Black Hole Found in Tiny Galaxy

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the center of a tiny low-mass galaxy, suggesting the formation of supermassive black holes may precede the growth of galaxies.

NASA's Kepler Finds New Rocky Planet

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-10b, the smallest planet outside our solar system and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth but more hotter than molten iron.

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