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Into deep space: second U.S. firm takes aim at mining asteroids
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan 22 - A team of entrepreneurs and engineers unveiled plans on Tuesday for a space mining company that would tap nearby asteroids for raw materials to fuel satellites and manufacture components in orbit.
Balloon-like dwelling to be tested on Int'l Space Station
LAS VEGAS - A low-cost space dwelling that inflates like a balloon in orbit will be tested aboard the International Space Station, opening the door for commercial leases of future free-flying outposts and deep-space astronaut habitats for NASA.
Russia plans to send probe to moon in 2015
MOSCOW - Russia will resume a long-dormant quest to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015, the head of the space agency was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe
- Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe - a group of quasars so large it would take 4 billion years to cross it while traveling at speed of light.
Spanish cuts widen Europe's north-south research divide
MADRID - Amanda Bolanos, a young Spanish scientist, knows she will not be coming home.
Weightlessness no cure for "morning clumsies," astronaut says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Like many people, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield confesses that he's sometimes clumsy in the morning just after waking up.
Studies find hardy Earth microbes may resist conditions on Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A hardy bacteria common on Earth was surprisingly adaptive to Mars-like low pressure, cold and carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, a finding that has implications in the search for extraterrestrial life.
DNA pioneer James Watson takes aim at "cancer establishments"
NEW YORK - A day after an exhaustive national report on cancer found the United States is making only slow progress against the disease, one of the country's most iconic - and iconoclastic - scientists weighed in on "the war against cancer." And he does not like what he sees.
The Kraken wakes: first images of giant squid filmed in deep ocean
TOKYO - A Japanese-led team of scientists has captured on film the world's first live images of a giant squid, journeying to the depths of the ocean in search of the mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the "kraken", a tentacled monster. | Video
NASA's Kepler telescope finds 461 potential new planets
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's Kepler space telescope has uncovered another 461 potential new planets, most of which are the size of Earth or a few times larger, scientists said on Monday.
Creditors probe meningitis-linked pharmacy owners' pay
BOSTON - Creditors of the bankrupt pharmacy linked to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak are investigating $16 million in salary and shareholder distributions made to company owners in 2012, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday.
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