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Endeavour touches down in California

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day mission to prepare the International Space Station for its first six-member crew with a flawless touchdown at NASA's backup landing site in California. ...  > full story

Space shuttle begins gliding back to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — The space shuttle Endeavour fired its braking rockets and left orbit on Sunday, beginning an hourlong glide to California after finishing a marathon home-improvement mission at the International Space Station. ...  > full story

Stephen Hawking named to Canadian research post

TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — Internationally renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has been appointed to the post of distinguished research chair at a quantum theory and cosmology institute founded by Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. ...  > full story

Plumes from Saturn moon may come from liquid water

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Huge plumes of water vapor and ice particles are spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus at supersonic speeds in a way that strongly suggests they come from liquid water down below the icy surface, scientists said. ...  > full story

Astronauts finish second spacewalk outside station

HOUSTON, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — Shuttle Endeavour astronauts working outside the orbiting International Space Station faced glitches during a second spacewalk on Thursday, as one astronaut experienced high carbon-dioxide levels after his crew mate lost a tool bag on the mission's first spacewalk. ...  > full story

Huge glaciers detected under rocky debris on Mars

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) — A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday. ...  > full story

Clump of dark matter may loom near solar system

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2008 (Reuters) — A balloon-borne instrument soaring high over Antarctica has found evidence of a possible large clump of mysterious so-called dark matter relatively close to our solar system, scientists said on Wednesday. ...  > full story

Telescopes get visual of planets around another sun

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2008 (Reuters) — Telescopes on land have caught the first real visual images of multiple planets orbiting another star. ...  > full story

NASA clears shuttle for space station visit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) — NASA managers on Wednesday cleared the space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts for launch on Friday on a mission to make the International Space Station a bit more like home. ...  > full story

NASA loses contact with Mars lander, ends mission

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — The Phoenix Mars Lander, which made history by finding definitive proof of water on the Red Planet, has lost contact with Earth, effectively ending its more than five-month mission, NASA said on Monday. ...  > full story
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