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When I first started reading this story, all I could think of was “Man, what a friggin’ waste of money this is.”
After reading further, I still feel the same.
At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Cabeus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where ice is [...]

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Some recent meteor pounding on Mars has revealed some craters that show a bit of bright ice exposed at five Martian sites with new craters that range in depth from approximately half a meter to 2.5 meters. The ice was not seen in previous photos of the same sites.
Some of the craters show a [...]

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This is going to be a bit technical, and kind of difficult to grasp I would guess, but it is something that is considered quite an important discovery so I want to at least put it out there for people to try and understand. At least describe the finding and what had originally been considered [...]

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For hundreds of year the theory that the building blocks of life on Earth came from somewhere else has been discussed. Particularly from falling matter onto the planet from space.
A building block of proteins found in samples from an icy comet’s halo suggests that the ingredients of life could have hitched a ride to [...]

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The Hubble telescope was in the middle of testing and calibration of its new instruments, installed by astronauts during a service mission in May. Hubble managers decided that the Jupiter impact event was rare enough and important enough to pause testing to get a look.
Jupiter was supposedly hit by a rogue object several days ago [...]

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While I find Twitter to be one of the most useless and boring things out there , I guess it does have some uses .
The International Space Station (ISS) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. A new notification service on Twitter will tell [...]

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Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]

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Comet Lulin will be closest to the Earth this week, and more precisely on February 24th. Comet Lulin will streak by the earth within 38 million miles – 160 times farther than the moon -and is expected to be visible to the naked eye.
The comet was discovered just one year ago, and the “Green Comet” [...]

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) may have discovered some ancient hot springs on the red planet. The significance is that liike Earth, organisms may have also thrived in the springs. Life on Earth can thrive in and around hydrothermal springs.
Carlton C. Allen and Dorothy Z. Oehler, from the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate [...]

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It’s not all that often you get to see a comet in the sky is it? No idea really. I just can’t remember ever seeing one, or hearing about seeing one other than Haley’s Comet which is observable every 78 years. Slim chance you would ever see that one twice eh? Better chance to find [...]

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