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Space station's new urine recycler has glitches
22:49 21 November 2008 | 10 comments
NASA is having problems with a new $250 million machine that recycles urine into drinking water
Planet imaged closer to star than ever before?
20:50 21 November 2008
A planet may have been imaged closer to its star than any photographed previously
Second spacewalk ends on station's 10th birthday
16:24 21 November 2008 | 1 comment
Shuttle Endeavour astronauts worked outside the station on Thursday - the 10th anniversary of the launch of its first module
Galactic recluse has friends after all
00:14 21 November 2008
A revised distance for a galaxy thought to be a loner shows it actually has neighbours – a fact that explains its stellar baby boom
Vast stores of water ice surround Martian equator
19:30 20 November 2008 | 14 comments
Underground glaciers around the planet's midsection contain the largest deposits of ice outside the polar regions
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
19:00 20 November 2008 | 156 comments
The apparently solid stuff is no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum, fiendishly complex calculations confirm
Water recycler and beds installed on space station
23:30 19 November 2008 | 3 comments
The work will pave the way for the station's crew size to double to six next year
'Interplanetary internet' passes first test
21:47 19 November 2008 | 9 comments
Images were sent between a NASA probe and Earth in the first test of an internet-like data transmission system for space
Mysterious electrons may be sign of dark matter
18:30 19 November 2008 | 17 comments
A balloon-borne experiment in Antarctica detected a high number of energetic electrons from space that may be the signature of dark matter
Why the universe may be teeming with aliens
FEATURE: 18:00 19 November 2008 | 91 comments
Hunting for a planet that can support life? There's more to it than looking for Earth's distant twin, says David Shiga
PHYSICS
Quantum effects bring no solace for physicists
Quantum uncertainties in space-time will make it impossible to ever know for sure that all of nature's forces were once unified
EXPLORING MARS
Sun shines on future Mars colonies
Despite problems with NASA's Phoenix lander, the Sun's rays could match nuclear power for powering a human base on Mars, say energy specialists
SPECIAL FEATURE
The most extreme life-forms in the universe
These creatures set records for surviving in the most inhospitable environments on Earth - their existence bodes well for finding extraterrestrial life
SPECIAL FEATURE
Moving the Earth: a planetary survival guide
The Sun is slowly heating up, and in a billion years the oceans will begin to evaporate - moving the Earth is our only hope for survival
