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Rocket company sells discount rides to space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) — The space tourism race heated up on Tuesday when a second company began offering tickets for suborbital rides at less than half the price of competitor Virgin Galactic's. ...  > full story

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

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

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

U.S. top court rules for Navy in whales-sonar case

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) — The U.S. Navy can conduct sonar training exercises off the southern California coast without restrictions designed to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a defeat for environmentalists. ...  > 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

Scientists say peridotite rock can soak up CO2

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — A rock found mostly in Oman can be harnessed to soak up the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at a rate that could help slow global warming, scientists say. ...  > full story

Octopuses had Antarctic ancestor: marine census

OSLO, Nov. 9, 2008 (Reuters) — Many octopuses evolved from a common ancestor that lived off Antarctica more than 30 million years ago, according to a "Census of Marine Life" that is seeking to map the oceans from microbes to whales. ...  > full story

Autism linked with rainfall in study

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Children who live in the U.S. Northwest's wettest counties are more likely to have autism, but it is unclear why, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. ...  > full story
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