Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive... Opportunity this week quietly embarks on its tenth year of exploration -- a sweet milestone since it was only tasked to work for three months.

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According to Dr. Harold White of NASA's advanced propulsion physics laboratory at Johnson Space Center, new calculations indicate that something similar to Star Trek's Warp Drive is "plausible and worth further investigation." And according to Dr. White, they plan on testing the feasibility of the idea in the laboratory.

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Probably has as much to do with "Mohawk guy" as it has to do with successfully landing a two-ton death-ray equipped rover on Mars without so much as a hiccup...

I received an email poll from a CongressCritter. Not my CongressCritter, mind you. But I was happy to assist her in representing her district. Here are the questions.

1) What is the biggest challenge facing our country?
2) How can government better support small businesses?
3) How concerned are you about a possible space flight gapTurns out this ( Read more... )

In the first test of its planet-hunting ability, NASA's new spacecraft Kepler has show that it can indeed detect planetary objects orbiting distant stars, and is now ready to search for Earth-like planets...

...Borzuki has said that he expects Kepler to discover dozens if not hundreds of other Earths.

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Only image ever taken of a transit of a space shuttle (Atlantis) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in front of the Sun, during the last repair mission of Hubble

The Space Shuttle and the International Space Station silhouetted against the sun

Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise NASA's Kepler spacecraft which blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on Friday. Its three five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before to find Earth's twin... in search of planets ( Read more... )

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