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24 Jul 06

Puzzling Hot Spot Found on Moon of Saturn - Yahoo! News

  • In July NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its latest flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, revealing an unexpected hot spot on the moon's south pole. - svartling on 2006-07-24

Roswell Report: Case Closed

  • In July 1994, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force concluded an exhaustive search for records in response to a General Accounting Office (GAO) inquiry of an event popularly known as the "Roswell Incident." The focus of the GAO probe, initiated at - svartling on 2006-07-24

ROSWELL INCIDENT REPORT

  • The "Roswell Incident" refers to an event that supposedly happened in July, 1947, wherein the Army Air Forces (AAF) allegedly recovered remains of a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico. In February, 1994, the General Accounting Office (GAO), ac - svartling on 2006-07-24

Tiny Enceladus May Hold Ingredients Of Life

  • Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is "absolutely a highlight" of the Cassini mission and should be targeted in future searches for life, Robert H. Brown of The University of Arizona, leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team, said las - svartling on 2006-07-24

Smallest Earth-like planet found

  • An international team of astronomers has found the smallest Earth-like planet yet outside our Solar System. - svartling on 2006-07-24

Space rock re-opens Mars debate

  • A carbon-rich substance found filling tiny cracks within a Martian meteorite could boost the idea that life once existed on the Red Planet. The material resembles that found in fractures, or "veins", apparently etched by microbes in volcanic glass from th - svartling on 2006-07-24

'Lost' manuscript valued at £1m

  • A "lost" science manuscript from the 1600s found in a cupboard in a house during a routine valuation is expected to fetch more than £1m at auction. The hand-written document - penned by Dr Robert Hooke - contains the minutes of the Royal Society from 166 - svartling on 2006-07-24

Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species in remote New Guinea

  • An astonishing mist-shrouded "lost world" of previously unknown and rare animals and plants high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea has been uncovered by an international team of scientists. Among the new species of birds, frogs, butterflies and pa - svartling on 2006-07-24

Astronomers shed light on mystery of 'dark matter'

  • British astronomers have come a step closer to understanding one of the most mysterious substances in the universe - the "dark matter" which acts as a kind of cosmic glue, holding galaxies together. New research into dark matter, believed to make up 23 pe - svartling on 2006-07-24

Explorers Discover Huge Cave and New Poison Frogs

  • A cave so huge helicopters can fly into it has just been discovered deep in the hills of a South American jungle paradise. Actually, "Cueva del Fantasma"—Spanish for "Cave of the Ghost"—is so vast that two helicopters can comfortably fly into it and l - svartling on 2006-07-24

Earth could seed Titan with life

  • Terrestrial rocks blown into space by asteroid impacts on Earth could have taken life to Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have announced. Earth microbes in these meteorites could have seeded the organic-rich world with life, scientists believe. They think - svartling on 2006-07-24

Huge Astronomical Image of 'Empty Space' Obtained with ESO Telescope

  • An image made of about 300 million pixels is being released by ESO, based on more than 64 hours of observations with the Wide-Field Camera on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The image covers an 'empty' region of the sky five times the size of the - svartling on 2006-07-24

Hacker fears 'UFO cover-up'

  • In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks. - svartling on 2006-07-24

Astronomers Find Nearby Galactic Highway

  • Astronomers have discovered a long, slender stream of ancient stars racing across the northern sky. The stream is about 30,000 light-years from Earth and flowing high over the Milky Way at some 230 kilometers per second, or more than half a million miles - svartling on 2006-07-24
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