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| Chinese Space Junk Won't Endanger Space Station Crew A piece of Chinese space junk expected to zoom by the International Space Station Thursday will pass harmlessly by, NASA officials said after scrambling to determine whether the six people aboard the outpost would have to take shelter in their Russian lif |
| NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet -- trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. |
| New school teaches new tools Technology has brought such rapid changes to the world in the past decade that it's hard to fathom what inventions will change lives in the coming 10 or 20 years. |
| Planets found in unusually intimate dance around dying star Astronomers have found two extrasolar planetary systems with gas giant planets locked in an orbital embrace. In one system -- a planetary pair orbiting the massive, dying star HD 200964, located roughly 223 light-years from Earth -- the intimate dance is |