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Europe’s Mars Express probe gets an eyeful of the Red Planet’s major moon, Phobos
Europe's Mars Express spacecraft returns some remarkable close-up images of the Red Planet's Phobos moon.
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Solar sail gets another chance for launch
As early as the end of July 2008, NASA plans to test solar sail technology in orbit with a tiny spacecraft called NanoSail-D
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Earth ‘not at risk’ from colliderOur planet will not be sucked into a black hole made in a new European physics facility, a report concludes. |
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Mars probe makes ‘ice’ discoveryNasa's Phoenix spacecraft has unearthed "perfect" evidence of ice in the soil around its landing site on Mars. |
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Space cameras to monitor forests
Plans to use high resolution cameras in space to monitor deforestation in the Congo Basin are unveiled.
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Three ‘Super-Earths’ Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star
More massive than Earth but less massive than Neptune, super-Earths could harbor life outside our solar system, some scientists believe.
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Phoenix starts to get rewards
Nasa's new lander on Mars is learning how to cope with the clumpy soil at its location on the northern plains.
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VIDEO: Polar Probe to Land on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to touch down near the planet's north pole Sunday and begin its search for signs of life on Mars.
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Virtual telescope opens night sky
Microsoft launches a free tool that allows amateur star-gazers to explore the universe from their computers.
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Dark matter may have been found on EarthAn Italian team claim to have observed dark matter particles in a detector, replicating an earlier finding, but physicists remain sceptical |
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- MIT Researchers Making Dyed Glass Solar Windows Work
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- Solar sail gets another chance for launch
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- Britain’s Last Neanderthals Were More Sophisticated Than We Thought
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- World’s Most Efficient Solar Dish
- Earth ‘not at risk’ from collider
- Mars probe makes ‘ice’ discovery
- Potential new weapon against TB: free cell minutes
- Intel team heads to Oregon for solar spin-off
- Popular UN-backed Internet word game feeds Myanmar’s cyclone victims
- Space cameras to monitor forests
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