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Asteroid-Mining ‘FireFlys’ Will Be Ready for Action by 2015
A second commercial venture to mine the near infinite resources of outer space has been started, and Deep Space...
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Black Hole Collision May Have Irradiated Earth in Eighth Century
A study last year found unusually high levels of the isotope carbon-14 in ancient rings of Japanese cedar trees...
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Strongest Evidence Yet That Mars May Have Supported Life
Scientists believe they may have found the ‘strongest evidence yet’ that Mars may have supported life, but it’s unlikely...
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Astronomers Measure Nearby Universe’s ‘Cosmic Fog’
Researchers from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background...
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A River Ran Through it (3.5 Billion Years Ago)
New astonishing pictures by the European Space Agency have revealed a 1,500km long and 7km wide river that once...
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‘Planetary Parks’ Could Protect Space Wilderness
It’s a wilderness out there in outer space. And as robotic surrogates set the stage for human footprints on...
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A Supercomputer Fit to Dominate the Cosmos
It may not be self-aware (yet) but this computing monster is ready to take over the world. Well, at...
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Mars Rover Finds Intriguing New Evidence of Water
The first drill sample ever collected on Mars will come from a rockbed shot through with unexpected veins of...
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The Biggest Thing in the Universe Is Really, Really Big
A newly discovered galactic structure is so large that it means one of our basic assumptions about the nature...
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Mystery Cloud at Milky Way’s Center May Hold Clues to Star Birth
Near the crowded center of a mysteriously dense galactic cloud, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a...