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Scientists: Earth-like planet could be just 13 light-years away
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said Wednesday morning that an "Earth-like" planet -- that is, a small rocky planet warm enough to have liquid water on its surface and potentially capable of hosting...
Tags: Science, Astronomy, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Science and Technology
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Chris Pratt set to play Star-Lord in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesLadies and gentlemen, meet your Star-Lord: Actor Chris Pratt, who currently plays the goofy and genial Andy on “Parks and ...... -
Asteroid flyby: Call off the space crew; no deep impact expected
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been corrected. Please see note at the bottom for details. An asteroid half the length of a ...... -
Daredevil went faster than previously thought during 24-mile fall
The results are in from Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting leap from a capsule floating more than 24 miles above a barren New Mexico desert, and it turns out he went faster during his supersonic free fall than originally estimated. With more...
Tags: Satellite Technology, California Science Center, Virgin Group, Ltd., Parachuting, Air and Aviation Sports
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Congrats, Earthlings, you're safe ... for now
Mayan apocalypse? Avoided. Y2K anarchy? Suppressed. Gigantic asteroid hurled by the sun’s gravity toward Earth? Well … Close but no cigar. Better go to Vegas, Earthlings, you’re on a winning streak of avoiding disaster. In what NASA...
Tags: 2012 DA14 (asteroid)
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Gordon Brush plant owner bristles at red tape tying up expansion
Ken Rakusin is frustrated. You would be too. Since 2009, the owner of Gordon Brush Manufacturing Co. has been trying to expand his 51,000-square-foot City of Commerce factory by 20,000 square feet. That would mean a larger factory floor, more office...
Tags: 401K, Local Government, Career and Workplace, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Aerospace Manufacturing
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A somber 10-year anniversary for space shuttle Columbia
Ten years ago Friday, the shuttle Columbia crumbled to Earth after 16 days in the heavens. As the shuttle passed over Texas en route to a routine landing in Florida, its left wing failed to withstand the heat of reentry. The craft burst into more than...
Tags: Human Interest, Space Programs, Technology, Science, Rocketry
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Asian space race reflects sharpened U.S.-China rivalry
South Korea’s successful satellite launch this week served as the latest act of one-upmanship in an accelerating space race gripping Northeast Asia. Membership in the elite global space club is being pursued by wealthy countries that can afford it...
Tags: Satellite Technology, Iran, South Korea, Human Rights, Beijing (China)
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‘Tomorrowland’: Brad Bird project gets a title, remains mysterious
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comLast week, filmmaker Brad Bird sent genre fans into a frenzy of speculation with a simple tweet showing the contents ...... -
Martian craters could hold fossilized web of water, study says
The cracks in Mars’ surface may be the fossilized remains of a web of water, according to new research released Tuesday. The findings, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, may explain a mysterious network of ridges that vein...
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Tune in here as NASA's GRAIL spacecraft crash into the moon
Space fanatics and NASA obsessives: Clear your afternoon calendar. At approximately 2:28 p.m. Monday, NASA will send its twin spacecrafts Ebb and Flow hurtling into the moon at 3,760 mph -- and the space agency will have a live play-by-play of the...
Tags: Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology
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NuSTAR captures unprecedented images of black holes, supernova
NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope is providing fresh views of oddly bright black holes and breathtaking supernovae, scientists said Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach. NuSTAR mission scientists released high-energy X-ray...
Tags: X-rays, Medical Procedures and Tests
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