"Saturn’s moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space ... The discovery suggests the possibility of some sort of geological activity, perhaps even volcanic, on these

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The HiRISE homepage - fresh hi-def pics of the Martian surface. Yum!

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"NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun." Very cool; much more impressive than bits of dead shark.

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"The so-called ‘electric sail’ would use fifty to one hundred 20-kilometer long charged tethers, their voltage maintained by a solar-powered electron gun aboard the vehicle."

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"Hinode, a collaborative mission of the space agencies of Japan, the United States, United Kingdon and Europe, captured these very dynamic pictures of our sun's chromosphere..." Just totally

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"So is there an organic-rich mixture below the surface of Enceladus even today? Cassini found hydrocarbon chains in the moon’s plume, which means we can’t rule this scenario out."

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"On Feb. 25, 2007 there was a transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun - but it could not be seen from Earth." The STEREO-B probe caught it, though. Watch this video if your mind needs

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"Cassini's recent highly inclined orbits around Saturn have provided the most unusual views of the planet and its rings yet seen." Just simply awesome. Link via anyone with eyes and a heart.

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"A device called a Photonic Laser Thruster is making news since a December demonstration of the technology by its inventor, Young Bae." Potential space propulsion innovation.

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"...the possibilities of magnetic sails using a different kind of propulsion. Rather than being pushed by photons, a magsail interacts with the plasma of the solar wind."

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Does what it says on the tin; wordage about (and images from) the SOHO solar probe satellite.

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"[UK] Police used computer experts to obtain confidential material, and are also believed to have approached Number 10's internet suppliers to gain access to government email records." ZOMFG

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"Some day alien civilizations may pick up television or radio signals from Earth. But does this mean they’re likely to visit us? Danish researcher Rasmus Bjork (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)

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"In bringing 2006 to a close, the Cassini Imaging Team is releasing its best maps of Titan and the major icy Saturnian moons, and other eye-catching images collected from our travels around Satur

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"What got the Benfords headlines not so long ago was the speeds they were proposing. Five years or less to Pluto? That’s almost a halving of New Horizons’ travel time, and it makes for some intri

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"Flickering loops of plasma above the Sun's churning surface have been captured in movies made by Japan's Hinode spacecraft, providing a preview of what the probe will do once it begins its main

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"The New Horizons probe, set to swing by Pluto and its moons in 2015, plucked the small planet from a star-filled image during a checkout period using the spacecraft’s long range camera..."

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"The Mars Global Surveyor is probably lost in space according to NASA scientists who have tried unsuccessfully to contact the probe over the past two weeks." Bad news, but ten years is a goo

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"On 17 November, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission reaches another important milestone on its epic out-of-ecliptic journey: the start of the third passage over the Sun's south pole."

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"Given how tricky it is to pick up accidental radio signals — “leakage” — from extraterrestrial civilizations, how hard would it be to communicate with our own probes once they’ve reached a syste

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"It also uses a good deal less power, but here’s the real kicker: The new system shrinks the required hardware on a planetary mission from the size of a crate down to a chip no bigger than your t

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"The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) onboard Japan's Hinode spacecraft has opened its doors and started snapping pictures."

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"Simply fill out the form below and your name will be included on the Phoenix DVD along with [...] a collection of Mars literature and art, and personal messages to the future by space visionarie

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"The surviving portion of the Deep Impact space probe that watched as its other half smashed into a comet on July 4 is being sent on a mission to study another comet." NASA sets an example b

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"In its relentless probing of Venus's atmosphere, ESA's Venus Express keeps revealing new details of the Venusian cloud system."

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"The comets visited by NASA's Stardust and Deep Impact missions are remarkably different in composition, a new analysis reveals."

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"The heat from Saturn's interior backlights clouds deep within its atmosphere, a new image from the Cassini spacecraft reveals." Space is pretty!

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"...a promise of what's to come early next year when the craft nears the gas giant planet."

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"Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb -- and a faint suggestion of our moon -- among the glories of the Saturn system." Wow. Just wow.

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"The occultation of the Sun put the spacecraft in position to see the rings with exquisite and detail-enhancing backlighting, providing striking visual evidence for their extensive interaction wi

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