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NASA: 4,700 asteroids may pose risk
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(CNN) -- About 4,700 asteroids are close enough and big enough to pose a risk to Earth, NASA estimated Wednesday after studying data beamed back from an orbiting telescope. The figure -- give or take
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Survey counts Earth-threatening asteroids
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A NASA space telescope has completed the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids, the space agency said.Observations from the Wide-field Infrared Survey
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See the asteroid Juno â?? if you have the right tools
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A Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula, 170,000 light-years away in a satellite galaxy known as the Large
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NASA lends ultraviolet space telescope to Caltech
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LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Xinhua) -- NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a space telescope that for the last nine years has been surveying the cosmos in ultraviolet light, to Caltech (California
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How many scary asteroids out there? A lot, says NASA
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A new NASA project says there are roughly 4,700 "potentially hazardous asteroids" - give or take 1,500 - with orbits close to Earth. The figures, which come from observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared
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Soyuz TMA-04M to Dock with Space Station
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The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with the new crew for the International Space Station (ISS), launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, will dock with the ISS on Thursday morning in
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NASA Loans Space Telescope to Caltech
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NASA and Caltech on Monday (May 14) signed a Space Act Agreement that clears the way for Caltech to take over management and operations of the $150 million space telescope. "NASA sees this as an opportunity
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Hawthorne Spacecraft Ready for Takeoff
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A historic flight is set to take place early Saturday morning at 1:55am PDT, when an unmanned spacecraft, named Dragon, launches atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Dragon,
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Space travel for the rich
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Fancy a trip into space? You could be queuing at the departure gate within a year or two - provided you have a cool $200,000 or so to spare. Most recent estimates say that only 500 people have ever left
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NZ's date with Transit of Venus
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As the speck that is Venus crosses the glowing face of the sun next month, for the second and last time this century, the focus of New Zealand's scientific community will be on the East Coast. Hundreds
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Hawthorne Spacecraft Set to Launch to Space Station
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A historic flight is set to take place early Saturday morning at 1:55am PDT. A launch of an unmanned spacecraft, named Dragon, atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It's historic
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2,000 People Apply To Build Asteroid Mining Robots
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Even in a tough economy when a firm advertises that it needs engineers to design the next generation robot to mine asteroids in near Earth orbit the response can be a bit overwhelming. Planetary Resources,
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Asteroid 2012 KA to Buzz Earth on May 17
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Orbit diagram of asteroid 2012 KA from JPL's Small Body Database website. On the heels of a bus-sized asteroid that passed harmlessly between Earth and the orbit of the Moon on May 13, another asteroid
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Earth Pictures: Iconic Images of Earth from Space
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A "Blue Marble" image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's
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NASA Astronaut to attend science festival
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New Zealand International Science Festival, Dunedin, 30 June to 8 July 2012 NASA astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson, a veteran of three space flights who has logged more than 42 days in space, will be making
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The Big Dipper Like Youâve Never Seen It Before!
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Junocam image of the stars that make up the "Big Dipper" (aka the Plough) asterism. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS) All right, it may look just like any other picture youâ??ve ever seen of the Big Dipper.
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Honing in on Supernova Origins
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News From the Field Source Carnegie Institution The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and
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