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Aspirant US space miners aim to break into tightly South African-held platinum …

May 10th, 2012

The platinum patch belongs to Southern Africans, or so we thought until new US aspirant space miner Planetary Resources burst on to the scene at the Museum of Flight in Seattle with a plan to mine platinum-group metals (PGMs) in outer space.

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Huge asteroid Vesta is actually an ancient protoplanet

May 10th, 2012
Scientists had thought that Vesta, the second-largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably started down a planet-forming path shortly after the solar system's birth. Data gathered by NASA's Dawn probe have now confirmed …

Huge asteroid Vesta is actually an ancient protoplanet

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Comments by Charles Bolden at the COMSTAC Advisory Committee Public Meeting

May 10th, 2012
This is an exciting time for all of us who are devoted to space exploration, especially for the team at NASA. We are literally at the brink of a new era in space exploration. Many of you may have seen the Space Shuttle Discovery's Washington flyover a …

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With 'Planets,' Lexington Philharmonic ends season on heavenly note

May 10th, 2012
By Rich Copley — rcopley@herald-leader.com What: Scott Terrell conducts the Lexington Philharmonic and the women of the Lexington Singers in a performance of The Planets by Gustav Holst, accompanied by a high-definition film of the planets from the …

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Light from alien 'super-Earth' is seen for the first time

May 9th, 2012

Spitzer first detected infrared light from an alien planet in 2005. But that world was "hot Jupiter," a gas giant planet much larger than 55 Cancri e that orbited extremely close to its parent star. Other telescopes have performed similar feats since …

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In Honor of JUICE, a New View of Europa

May 8th, 2012

The exciting thing is that even if NASA does drop the ball on outer planets exploration, it appears that ESA will take up the mantle. To celebrate the selection of ESA's new mission to Jupiter and its icy moons, I have reprocessed another Galileo view …

In Honor of JUICE, a New View of Europa

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'Hot Jupiter' systems make presence of Earth-like planets unlikely

May 8th, 2012
As the hot Jupiter planets close in on their suns, they likely scatter away any other planets in the system. By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.comMon, May 07 2012 at 3:12 PM EST TOO HOT: An artist's impression of a hot Jupiter planet. Such planets are at least …

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Earth-Like Alien Planets Unlikely Around Stars with 'Hot Jupiters'

May 7th, 2012

Hot Jupiters get their name from the fact that they are approximately Jupiter's size, but extraordinarily near their stars, at about a tenth of the distance from Mercury to our sun. These roaster planets are among the alien worlds that astronomers have …

Earth-Like Alien Planets Unlikely Around Stars with 'Hot Jupiters'

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Dying Stars Seen 'Eating' Planets, And Scientists Say Same Could Happen In Our …

May 7th, 2012

Astronomers have caught four dying stars in the act of chowing down on rocky alien planets similar to Earth, a destructive cosmic process that may one day play out in our very own solar system, a new study reveals. Evidence of the distant celestial …

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Video: European space probe to search for life on Jupiter's moons

May 6th, 2012
JUICE is a necessary step for the future exploration of our outer solar system." Gimenez Canete said: "Jupiter is the archetype for the giant planets of the Solar System and for many giant planets being found around other stars.

Video: European space probe to search for life on Jupiter's moons

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