positive Space news
NASA-funded survey suggests earth-sized planets are commonNearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of California. |
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Runway opens at world’s first spaceportCommercial space travel took a step closer with the opening of the runway at the world's first spaceport in the US state of New Mexico. |
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A New Pair Of Glasses To View EarthOur view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. |
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Virgin spaceship’s first solo flightHOLIDAYMAKERS are one small step closer to the stars after the world's first tourist rocket made a giant leap in its race to take people into space. |
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Russian Firm Unveils Plan for First Space HotelThe lead Russian contractor for the International Space Station (ISS) says it plans to build the first hotel in space to cash in on a growing market for private tourism, a senior executive said on Thursday. |
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Astronomers: Newly discovered planet may be able to support lifeAstronomers have discovered a new planet that just may be able to support life in a nearby solar system a mere 20 light years from Earth. |
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Alien oceans could be detected by telescopesThe next generation of telescopes could reveal the presence of oceans on planets outside our Solar System. |
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Mars may not be lifeless, say scientistsCarbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists - challenging a widely-held notion of the Red Planet as barren. |
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Big Bear Solar Observatory: The Most Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Ever RecordedResearchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have tuned their adaptive optics array and achieved first light, capturing this image of a sunspot that is now the most detailed ever captured in visible light. |
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Rich exoplanet system discoveredAstronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called HD 10180, which is much like our own Sun. |
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Mars site may hold buried lifeResearchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars. |
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700 new planets discovered by NASANASA's deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system. |
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Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroidsA new telescope facility in Hawaii designed to search for asteroids and comets which could threaten Earth has been made operational. |
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‘Take us to your leader’ - UFO files outThe latest instalment of Britain's very own X-Files have revealed an unlikely destination for so-called extraterrestrial visitors - the former home secretary Michael Howard's home. |
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Science news headlines
- Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sight
- Share your status – and your lungs. Facebook tool promotes organ donation
- Bar Codes Apps Allow Consumers To Make Socially Conscious Choices
- Saving Right Whales? There’s an app for that.
- New technologies detect seizures, and could possibly even eliminate them
- Floating wind turbines to produce low cost renewable energy
- Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutes
- American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
- New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteries
- Digital tools ‘to save languages’
- Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
- The Cleanweb Takes Off
- Personal medicine is a little bit closer: Sequence your genome for under $1000
- 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA
- New discovery could lead to better artificial hips
- New plasma “brush” may mean painless cavity filling
- First Earth-sized planets spotted
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
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