Progress made toward lunar liquid mirror telescope
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Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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Scientists for the first time have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as the Caspian Sea on Earth.
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European spacecraft Smart 1 is at the Moon&#39;s gateway, the region beyond which the probe is tugged more strongly by lunar gravity than by the Earth&#39;s.
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PACKING a revolutionary engine that one day may send a robot scout into deep space, Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon enters a key phase on Monday when the cube-shaped spacecraft is injected into lunar orbit.
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The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and  NASA have agreed to cooperate on the development of a lunar spacecraft intended  as the first shot in a series of robotic probes paving the way for future human  exploration missions, according to an NRO official.
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WASHINGTON -- In late May, a NASA-funded robot successfully navigated one of the world's deepest sinkholes. The mission could be a prelude to a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, believed to contain a liquid water ocean.
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Embarking on an ambitious 10-year moon exploration program, China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday Â a leap forward in the Asian space race that gave a boost to national pride, and the promise of scientific and military payoffs.
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British and U.S. scientists said Friday they were exploring plans for a joint lunar mission that would use an orbiter to fire missile-like penetrators into the moon's surface.
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Stargazers and astronomers around the world watch the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years. By the Associated Press.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists
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A sophisticated autopilot system that could play a vital role in missions to the moon or Mars will be tested this week during a $100 million demonstration 500 miles above Earth.
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By Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jan. 31--The Advanced Camera for Surveys, the workhorse main camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope since it was first installed in March 2002, might have taken its last breath-taking photograph that has brought humankind to new vistas of outer space.
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An embryonic star, just beginning its life as the center of a planetary system, is apparently deluged with massive rainfall as icy material vaporizes and refreezes. Astronomers are observing one such star in a nebula about 1,000 light years from Earth with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA experts said they have detected evidence that liquid water existed on the surface of Mars in recent years, giving weight to hopes that signs of life on the Red Planet could still be found.