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Asteroid quiz: Test your space rock knowledge
Asteroids are in the news a lot these days, from NASA's plans to land a person on one to the calls for better monitoring of nearby asteroids after a relatively small one exploded recently over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk and caused serious...
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Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing
A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...
Tags: Technology, SpaceX, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Satellite Technology
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope disabled
Planet-hunting scientists were dealt a major blow Wednesday when NASA officials announced that a crucial wheel on the Kepler space telescope had ceased to function and that the craft had been placed in safe mode. Even as NASA officials raised the...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Science and Technology, Science
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'Star Trek' crew meets Space Station crew in live Google Hangout
Free live streaming by Ustream "Star Trek" fans, set your alarms. And fans of the astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station, set your alarms too. At 9 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, the filmmakers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness"...Tags: Google Inc., Chris Pine, Movies, Damon Lindelof, Alice Eve
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Is Kepler dead? NASA to give update on planet-hunting telescope
Is NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope dead? That was the rumor circulating Wednesday, nearly a week after the space telescope went into safe mode. NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. Pacific time “to discuss the status of the...
Tags: Space Programs, Science and Technology, Science
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Sun fires off fourth major solar flare of the week--more expected
There she goes again! The same region of the sun that brought you three powerful solar flares in a 24-hour span from Sunday night to Monday evening let loose Tuesday night with another explosive flash of ultraviolet radiation and sent tons of its own...
Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Solar Storms (2012), Astronomy
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Caņada...
Tags: Google Inc., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Barack Obama, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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JPL begins work on two new missions to Mars
Less than a year after the rover Curiosity's successful landing on Mars, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are at work on two new missions to the Red Planet. The space agency last year announced that a new lander and rover...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science and Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science
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Mars rover Opportunity breaks distance record; what took so long?
After nine years on the job, NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has finally broken a 40-year-old record for the longest distance driven on another world. The Mars rover Opportunity has been exploring the Red Planet’s surface since landing in...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program
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Retired astronaut encourages Western Heights students to follow dreams
julieg@herald-mail.comRetired NASA astronaut Don Thomas encouraged Western Heights Middle School eighth-graders to follow their dreams and to persevere, as he did. “If you forget everything else I told you here today, the one thing I want you to remember is to never...Tags: Technology, Colleges and Universities, Students, Education, Atlantic Ocean
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Three massive solar flares in 24 hours -- are more on the way?
The sun put on another fireworks display Monday evening, releasing a dramatic flash of ultraviolet radiation and sending solar matter hurtling through space. It was the third major solar flare in 24 hours and the most powerful of 2013. The solar flare...
Tags: Solar Storms (2012), Science and Technology, Astronomy
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Google's Earth Engine: A stunning time-lapse view of the planet
Much has happened to the planet since 1984, and now Google has come up with a way to have a spectacular, bird's-eye view of the changes. In partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and Time magazine, Google has put together a website that...Tags: Google Inc., Newspaper and Magazine, Time (magazine), U.S. Geological Survey, Google+
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