positive Space news
International Space Station gets new observation deckAstronauts have successfully installed an extension to the International Space Station in a series of spacewalks. |
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Avatar’s Pandora possible within years?The concept of life on the moon may currently be limited to sci-fi blockbusters such as James Cameron's Avatar, but a leading astronomer has suggested it could become a reality in just a few years. |
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Observatory imagesFor the first time an infant neutron star has been been observed (blue dot in the centre of the image). |
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Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another StunnerThe Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. |
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‘Space lift’ competition takes placeA competition has been held in the US to prove that creating an elevator that could be used to send people into space is possible. |
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Smos begins climate change missionA mission to launch a new satellite which will monitor climate change has got off to a successful start. |
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NASA releases detailed pictures of MarsNASA has released thousands of high-resolution images of Mars, taken from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO). |
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Microbe found two miles under Greenland ice is reawakened from a 120,000-year sleepA tiny purple bug that has been buried under nearly two miles of ice for 120,000 years has been revived in a lab. |
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceships finished by December 2009Sir Richard Branson told Google's Zeitgeist conference Virgin Galactic spaceships will be ready for testing by December 2009 and are on track to be carbon neutral. |
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Europe unveils British astronautTimothy Peake, a 37-year-old test pilot in the Army Air Corps, has been accepted into the European Space Agency's (Esa) Astronaut Corps. |
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Hubble gyros fixed after struggleAstronauts have completed the most critical repair to the Hubble Space Telescope after a long struggle. |
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Earth, observedThe Earth Observatory is a website run by NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office (EOSPSO). |
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Supersonic water jets shoot from Saturn moonSupersonic jets of water vapour are blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, reveal observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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Exoplanets finally come into viewTwo studies show the first direct images of planets outside our solar system, including a three-planet system. |
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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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