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Science World Report
23 Apr 2014, 11:17 UTC
When you think of threats to cities and towns, your mind might automatically go to the problem of crime or even climate change. Yet there may be another threat that we haven't considered: asteroid impacts.
Destructive Asteroid Impacts Near Earth are Far More Common Than Previously Thought (VIDEO)
23 Apr 2014, 11:17 UTC
When you think of threats to cities and towns, your mind might automatically go to the problem of crime or even climate change. Yet there may be another threat that we haven't considered: asteroid impacts.
Universe Awareness - Updates
23 Apr 2014, 07:54 UTC
Once or twice a week, UNAWE brings the news from across the Universe to kids all around the world in the form of Space Scoops. When a major space organisation, like ESA, NASA, NAOJ or ESO, makes a big discovery or a breath-taking photograph, UNAWE writes a news item on this specifically for children. This shows them that science, and astronomy in particular, is an exciting and lively subject where discoveries happen all the time. When they grow up, children can make their own breakthrough discoveries! By stating that UNAWE brings news to kids all around the world, we mean what we say. Space Scoops are translated into 27 different languages, making it accessible to a large majority of the planet. One of these languages is Slovenian. The UNAWE node in Slovenia has managed to create a collage of the very best Space Scoops in the form of a print magazine! They are now distributing the magazine to schools and interested individuals. If you would like to receive a copy, please contact Andreja Gomboc, the Slovenian national project manager from the University of Ljubljana. Andreja is the one who made this magazine possible, with sponsorship of the Slovenian Centre of ...
Slovenian Space Scoops Published in Print Magazine
23 Apr 2014, 07:54 UTC
Once or twice a week, UNAWE brings the news from across the Universe to kids all around the world in the form of Space Scoops. When a major space organisation, like ESA, NASA, NAOJ or ESO, makes a big discovery or a breath-taking photograph, UNAWE writes a news item on this specifically for children. This shows them that science, and astronomy in particular, is an exciting and lively subject where discoveries happen all the time. When they grow up, children can make their own breakthrough discoveries! By stating that UNAWE brings news to kids all around the world, we mean what we say. Space Scoops are translated into 27 different languages, making it accessible to a large majority of the planet. One of these languages is Slovenian. The UNAWE node in Slovenia has managed to create a collage of the very best Space Scoops in the form of a print magazine! They are now distributing the magazine to schools and interested individuals. If you would like to receive a copy, please contact Andreja Gomboc, the Slovenian national project manager from the University of Ljubljana. Andreja is the one who made this magazine possible, with sponsorship of the Slovenian Centre of ...
Discover
23 Apr 2014, 00:30 UTC
The complicated, confusing and thrilling search for alien life.
Why Is E.T. Still MIA?
23 Apr 2014, 00:30 UTC
The complicated, confusing and thrilling search for alien life.
Starts With a Bang!
22 Apr 2014, 23:24 UTC
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man…
Happy Earth Day from the Universe
22 Apr 2014, 23:24 UTC
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man…
Science World Report
22 Apr 2014, 22:12 UTC
NASA recently announced they would be conducting a mission to visit a nearby asteroid to collect samples from its surface by 2018. Some politicians in Congress want NASA to bypass this mission and go directly to Mars or visit the moon.
NASA Asteroid Mission Will Serve as Precursor for Future Deep Space Endeavors
22 Apr 2014, 22:12 UTC
NASA recently announced they would be conducting a mission to visit a nearby asteroid to collect samples from its surface by 2018. Some politicians in Congress want NASA to bypass this mission and go directly to Mars or visit the moon.
Discovery News - Space News
22 Apr 2014, 21:20 UTC
Saturn certainly has some oddball moons and astronomers think they're close to explaining how a weird feature formed on one of them.
Saturn Moon's Weird Ridge Rained Down From Space
22 Apr 2014, 21:20 UTC
Saturn certainly has some oddball moons and astronomers think they're close to explaining how a weird feature formed on one of them.
Astro Watch
22 Apr 2014, 20:34 UTC
Expedition 39 is finalizing preparations for a 2.5 hour spacewalk scheduled to begin 9:20 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The station crew is also getting ready to send off a Russian space freighter for two days of tests before it redocks again Friday morning. Spacewalkers Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio will install a spare backup computer on the S0 truss located on top of the Destiny laboratory module Wednesday morning. They will remove the old computer which failed April 11 after being shut down then restarted for a periodic health check. The duo was joined by Commander Koichi Wakata for a short spacewalk procedure conference. The trio also set up the Quest airlock, where they will stage their excursion, and readied spacewalk tools.Known as a Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM), the backup computer provides telemetry and commands to truss systems, solar alpha rotary joints and the Mobile Transporter rail car which rides along the truss structure. Both MDMs have been at the International Space Station for over 10 years.There are 45 MDMs throughout the space station. There are 24 inside the orbital laboratory and 21 located externally.Before Wednesday’s spacewalk, an ISS Progress 53 resupply ship will undock from the Zvezda service module at 4:58 a.m. ...
Space Station Crew Set to Conduct Spacewalk and Release Cargo Ship
22 Apr 2014, 20:34 UTC
Expedition 39 is finalizing preparations for a 2.5 hour spacewalk scheduled to begin 9:20 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The station crew is also getting ready to send off a Russian space freighter for two days of tests before it redocks again Friday morning. Spacewalkers Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio will install a spare backup computer on the S0 truss located on top of the Destiny laboratory module Wednesday morning. They will remove the old computer which failed April 11 after being shut down then restarted for a periodic health check. The duo was joined by Commander Koichi Wakata for a short spacewalk procedure conference. The trio also set up the Quest airlock, where they will stage their excursion, and readied spacewalk tools.Known as a Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM), the backup computer provides telemetry and commands to truss systems, solar alpha rotary joints and the Mobile Transporter rail car which rides along the truss structure. Both MDMs have been at the International Space Station for over 10 years.There are 45 MDMs throughout the space station. There are 24 inside the orbital laboratory and 21 located externally.Before Wednesday’s spacewalk, an ISS Progress 53 resupply ship will undock from the Zvezda service module at 4:58 a.m. ...
The Daily Galaxy
22 Apr 2014, 19:38 UTC
For decades, scientists believed that the atmosphere of early Earth was highly reduced, meaning that oxygen was greatly limited. Such oxygen-poor conditions would have resulted in an atmosphere filled with noxious methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia. To date, there remain widely held theories and studies of how life on Earth may have been built out of this deadly atmosphere cocktail. In 2011, scientists at the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings were the first direct evidence of what the ancient atmosphere of the planet was like soon after its formation and directly challenge years of research on the type of atmosphere out of which life arose on the planet. The scientists showed that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled wasteland as previously proposed, but instead was much closer to the conditions of our current atmosphere. The findings, in a paper titled "The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth's atmosphere," have implications for our understanding of how and when life began on ...
Earth's Early Atmosphere --New Clues to Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond (Today's Most Popular)
22 Apr 2014, 19:38 UTC
For decades, scientists believed that the atmosphere of early Earth was highly reduced, meaning that oxygen was greatly limited. Such oxygen-poor conditions would have resulted in an atmosphere filled with noxious methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia. To date, there remain widely held theories and studies of how life on Earth may have been built out of this deadly atmosphere cocktail. In 2011, scientists at the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings were the first direct evidence of what the ancient atmosphere of the planet was like soon after its formation and directly challenge years of research on the type of atmosphere out of which life arose on the planet. The scientists showed that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled wasteland as previously proposed, but instead was much closer to the conditions of our current atmosphere. The findings, in a paper titled "The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth's atmosphere," have implications for our understanding of how and when life began on ...
SPACE.com
22 Apr 2014, 18:16 UTC
Many people with a basic knowledge of physics know that Einstein developed the theory of relativity, yet few people actually understand what it means. But author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett relativity should be something anyone can understand.
