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NASA Crashes Into the Moon -- But Where Are the Pics?
Just Before Impact LCROSS gets ready for its intimate closeup with the moon NASA NASA's double sledgehammer shot to the moon succeeded early this morning when an empty rocket stage and a lunar probe...
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Moon-Bombing Mission Finds Significant Amount of Water in Lunar Soil
Water Plume Thar she blows NASA NASA's moon-smashing mission may not have provided a huge show for the folks on Earth, but now there's sweet vindication for scientists. The plume of lunar debris...
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Today On Mars: Where Curiosity's Cruise Stage Crashed Down
Scars On Mars Courtesy JPL When the Mars Rover Curiosity left Earth, it was carrying a cruise stage, whose parts included a sun sensor and star scanner, propellant tanks, and a couple antennae. The...
View ArticleHow To Watch NASA Smash a Rocket Into the Moon Tomorrow Morning
The harvest moon--which came a couple weeks late this year, on Oct. 4--has long allowed farmers to gather their crops late into the night, using moonlight as a beacon.…
View ArticleNASA Crashes Into the Moon -- But Where Are the Pics?
NASA's double sledgehammer shot to the moon succeeded early this morning when an empty rocket stage and a lunar probe each crashed into separate craters. But the host of…
View ArticleMoon-Bombing Mission Finds Significant Amount of Water in Lunar Soil
NASA's moon-smashing mission may not have provided a huge show for the folks on Earth, but now there's sweet vindication for scientists. The plume of lunar debris kicked up…
View ArticleU.S. Scientists Call for the Creation of an International Asteroid Defense...
Russia's proposal for an Armageddon-style mission to deflect the space rock Apophis seemed bold, but it's not the only one fretting about a catastrophic impact on Earth. The…
View ArticleNew Web Tool Shows Exact Effects of Potential Asteroid Impacts
Asteroids and comets come in all shapes and sizesâfrom small pebbles, to larger SUV-sized fragments, to massive asteroids like Ceres, which has a diameter of about 621…
View ArticleToday On Mars: Where Curiosity's Cruise Stage Crashed Down
When the Mars Rover Curiosity left Earth, it was carrying a cruise stage, whose parts included a sun sensor and star scanner, propellant tanks, and a couple antennae. The…
View ArticleA Volcanic Asteroid Roamed Our Solar System Billions Of Years Ago
The objects that dominated the Solar System early in its history may have been smallâ¦but they didn't lack flair. A new study has found that at least one early Solar…
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The Moon May Be The Result Of Earth's Collision With Its Long-Lost Twin
OuchHagai PeretsOur beloved Moon, often the staple of a peaceful and tranquil nighttime scene, has a pretty violent origin story.In 1970, researchers proposed the “giant impact” hypothesis, which...
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Scientists Are Crowdfunding Spacecraft To Blast Asteroids Out Of The Sky
The ThreatIowa State UniversityIt’s the ultimate doomsday scenario: Astronomers spot an enormous miles-wide asteroid headed for a collision course with Earth. An impact with our planet means a fiery...
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Comets Could Have Kickstarted Life On Earth And Other Worlds
Ben Crowder/ Flickr CC By SA 2.0Comets are typically associated with extinction. However, there is growing evidence pointing to their ability to "seed" or create life on planets, a controversial idea,...
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How Airbags Work, And How They Can Fail
Cars Millions of the safety devices have turned deadly Airbags are a critical safety feature in any car, but in the case of a recent tampering reveal, they can sometimes be a hazard themselves.
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