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Scientists have conducted the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants using a unique red glow detected by NASAs Aqua satellite.

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In February 09, NASA lost the centrepiece satellite of its $280 million CO2 monitoring and climate-change mission after a catastrophic launch failure after firing from a rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.

NASAs Kepler mission is a search other Earth-like planets.

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Fujitsu Develops Technology to Enhance Comprehensive Testing of Java Programs
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Student-to-student interaction will help build Indo-Pak relationship
A group of National College of Arts (NCA) students, who recently visited India to attend the annual National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA) convention in Chennai, have said that student-to-student interaction between the two countries can help clear misconceptions in the minds of people on both sides of the border. ANI

Moon may get nuclear energy soon
Reports indicate that NASA engineers are working on an ultra-compact nuclear power plant for the Moon that should generate enough electricity to run a house, or a lunar exploration base. ANI

Moons thin perfume comes from the Sun!
A Japanese craft has sniffed the moons whiff of an atmosphere, and has confirmed that it comes largely from sunlight brutally hammering the lunar surface. ANI

NASAs mirror to peer into the past and reveal how first galaxies formed
NASA is developing a primary mirror, 21.3 feet in diameter, for use on the James Webb Space Telescope to look into the past and tell us about our beginning in the universe and how the first galaxies formed. ANI

Revo Joins SUMMIT ON THE SUMMIT: Kilimanjaro as Exclusive Eyewear Provider
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Toshiba and RealD Collaborate to Bring 3D to the Home
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Astronomers finding millisecond pulsars at astonishing rate
An international team of astronomers is discovering exotic stars known as millisecond pulsars at an astonishing rate - much faster than ever before. ANI

NASAs WISE eye spies first glimpse of the starry sky
NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light. ANI

Most Earth-like exoplanet started out as Saturn-sized gas giant
A new research has indicated that the most Earth-like planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-size gas giant. ANI

Most Earth-like exoplanet started out as Saturn-sized gas giant
A new research has indicated that the most Earth-like planet yet found around another star may be the rocky remains of a Saturn-size gas giant. ANI

NASA Telescope captures action-packed image of cloud shaped galaxy
NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth. ANI

Galactic GPS to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth
Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy, which hold the promise of being used them as a kind of galactic GPS to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth. ANI

NASA scientists experiment to find out if Mars ever had life in the past
An experiment proposed by a NASA scientist has been added to the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on a mobile NASA laboratory that will land on Mars in 2012, which would help find if there was life on the Red Planet in the ancient times. ANI

Sun glints can help detect oceans and lakes on habitable exoplanets
With the help of two new videos from NASAs Deep Impact spacecraft, it has been revealed that bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signaling large bodies of water on Earth, which can help scientists find life on planets beyond our solar system. ANI

Astronomers spot earliest galaxies in Universe from Big Bang epoch
Astronomers, using NASAs Hubble Space Telescope, have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies, which date back to 13 billion years ago, just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. ANI

Samsung and RealD to Bring 3D Experience to the Home
PR Newswire

First images of elusive iron line in solar corona captured
Ground-based observations by solar physicists have revealed the first images of the elusive near-infrared emission line of highly ionized iron, or Fe XI 789.2 nm, in the solar corona. ANI

Gigantic black hole involved in stellar destruction
New results from NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes have suggested that a black hole, which is a thousand times as massive as the Sun, ripped apart a dense stellar remnant. ANI

NASAs Kepler space telescope discovers 5 earth-like exoplanets
NASAs Kepler space telescope has discovered its first five new Earth-like exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. ANI

Samsung and RealD to Bring 3D Experience to the Home
PR Newswire

GMMOS Group's Stanford Marine Division Acquires Offshore Marine Company MMPL
PR Newswire

NASAs Mars rover Spirit to mark 6th anniversary on January 3
NASAs Mars rover Spirit is all set to mark its sixth anniversary on January 3rd. ANI

New video reveals how Webb Telescopes MIRI detectors work
Researchers have come up with a new short video that shows what the James Webb Space Telescopes MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) detectors are all about and what they can do. ANI

NASAs space telescope opens its WISE eyes after ejecting protective cover
NASAs recently launched Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope has opened its eyes to the starry sky, after ejecting its protective cover. ANI

NASA chooses 3 finalists for future space mission to Venus, an asteroid, or the moon
NASA has selected three proposals as final candidates for the agencys next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system, namely, Venus, an asteroid, or the Moon. ANI

Magnetic field allows interstellar space to be fluffy
The Voyager probes have discovered that interstellar fluff is more magnetized than previously believed, a factor that seems to allow its very existence. ANI

Top 10 discoveries of the decade
An article in Discovery News has listed the top ten discoveries of the decade. ANI

Night shining clouds getting brighter worldwide
A new research has indicated that night shining clouds are getting brighter all over the world. ANI

Minute organs in the ear can alter blood flow to the brain
Researchers from Harvard Medical School along with NASA scientists have found that minute organs hidden deep within the ear directly alter blood flow to the brain. ANI

NASA crashes helicopter to test new shield for cars
NASA has intentionally crashed a 3,000-pound MD-500 helicopter loaded with dummies to test a new safety shield, which could someday be used to make the cars we drive safer. ANI

Astronomers claim discovery of most distant galaxies yet
In a new research, astronomers have found tentative evidence of the most distant galaxies yet, which have redshifts of around 10. ANI

Indian scientist examines possibility of life on planets other than Earth
A recent article by Ashwini Kumar Lal, from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, has examined the possibility of life on planets and satellites within our solar system and beyond. ANI

We might be looking in the wrong places for water on the moon
New observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) suggest that we might be looking in the wrong places for water on the Moon. ANI

Silicon technology to enable clearest X-ray view yet of most violent regions of space
An European Space Agency (ESA) led effort is all set to use silicon technology to enable astronomys clearest X-ray view yet of the most violent regions of space. ANI

Boat could explore alien seas of Saturns moon Titan in future
A scientific team is all set to submit to NASA a daring proposal to try to put a boat down on a sea of Saturns moon Titan. ANI

NASA jumbo jet plans to unlock origins of the universe
A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone on December 18 when doors covering the planes telescope were fully opened in flight. ANI

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