Space Stories for 2011

Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites 40
Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? 168
China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016 218
SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? 167
Twin GRAIL Probes To Map Lunar Gravity Field 18
Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof 121
NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball' 192
Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch 119
Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? 229
Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy ... From Space 25
Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star 76
Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets 179
NASA Considers Sending Telescope To the Outer Solar System 152
Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle 134
Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? 181
Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives 209
Smallest Known Black Hole Found 69
Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? 203
Hubble Captures the Violent Birth of a Star 102
How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit 200
Astronomers Find Gas Cloud About To Fall Into Black Hole 94
NASA Developing Comet Harpoon For Sample Return 49
Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project 152
Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars 154
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 156
Is the Earth Special? 745
Massive Radio Telescope Starts Observing the Skies 44
2nd SpaceX Demo Flight Slated For Feb. 7 42
NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks 132
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars 162
Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System 341
New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way 41
US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life 301
Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable 42
New Theory Challenges Need For Dark Matter 302
Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone 257
3D Video of Asteroid Vesta 26
ESA Ends Attempts To Pick Up Phobos-Grunt Signals 40
Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View 166
Fire Burns Differently In Space 146
UK Plans Space Based Radar System 70
How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars 101
Lightning-made Waves In Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space 72
'Amateur' Astronomer Snaps Pic of Planet-Forming Disk 59
NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Set For Saturday Launch 64
Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home 138
Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 113
Exoplanet Count Tops 700 128
Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking 438
LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance 113
Sand Dunes On Mars In Motion 55
Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon 251
Life-Bearing Lake Possible On Icy Jupiter Moon 112
Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut 86
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait Responds 55
Commercial Space: Spirit of Apollo Or Spirit of Solyndra? 157
Russians Can't Make Contact With Busted Space Probe 117
Helium White Dwarf Stars Bear New Quasiparticle 28
Pristine Big Bang Gas Found 220
NASA Successfully Test Fires J-2X Engine. 119
NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating 132
Phobos-Grunt Launches To Retrieve a Sample of Phobos 65
NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid 135
Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole 76
China Completes First Space Docking Test 106
Watch the Fiery Re-entry of Progress Module 27
NASA: If There Was Life On Mars, It Was Likely Underground 59
NASA Wants To Make Tractor Beams a Reality 91
Progress Spacecraft Launch Successful 83
Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet 102
Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds 93
Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved 96
Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More 150
Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts 80
Ask The Bad Astronomer 412
Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth 43
Ask Slashdot: How To Enter Private Space Industry As an Engineer? 283
Using Fuel Depots Instead of Giant Rockets 202
German Satellite To Fall From Sky 107
DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones 186
Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tomorrow Morning 21
A Vigorous Discussion of Our Future In Space 111
Youngest Exoplanet Discovered 16
Starships In a Century? 314
GLORIA To Give Amateur Astronomers Access To Robotic Telescopes 35
Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS 402
Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor 376
Analysis of Galaxy Spin Reveals Universe Might Be Left-Handed 171
Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space 272
Comet Nearly Hit Earth? Not So Fast 84
NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo 76
Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers 265
Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life 298
NASA Game Lets You Build Complex Space Networks 47
The Mystery of Mars' Bizarre Plumbing 62
Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered Via Crowdsourcing 21
Company to Send DBA into Space 98
Is the OMB Trying To End Planetary Exploration? 236
Boeing Suggests Possible Manned Version of the X-37B Space Plane 87
Astronauts As Alien Life Hunters? 172
Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons 153
Australia's Iconic Parkes Telescope Turns 50 30
Astronomers Find Three Exoplanets In Old Hubble Images 48
EU Sending a Probe To the Sun 160
Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' 437
New Close-Ups of Saturn's Geyser Moon 89
World's Most Powerful Telescope Begins Search For Origin of the Universe 82
SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability 227
Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World 90
China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module 178
A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs 188
NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space 91
NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare 84
Does Famous Exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' Really Exist? 40
NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt 65
NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada 62
NASA Rolls Out Space Exploration Roadmap 128
Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts 203
New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt 100
NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge 42
NASA Looking To Power Spacecraft With Lasers 91
The Search For Apollo 10's "Snoopy" 116
Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS 180
Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants? 91
NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite 74
Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout 97
NASA's Big Telescope Avoids Death-by-Budget-Cut 123
First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars 88
NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech 77
Star Rips Exoplanet To Shreds With X-Rays 62
NASA Unveils Design for New Space Launch System 288
Amazon's Bezos Seeks Spacecraft Patents 71
theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles 136
50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await 208
Appropriations Bill Threatens Future Space Science Missions 233
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive 133
NASA's Twin GRAIL Craft On Their Way To the Moon 42
Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet 78
Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash 102
Icelandic Rocks Suggest Meteorites Brought Gold To Earth 82
Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment 80
Could New Rover's Wheels Deliver Germs To Mars? 82
Satellite Captures Burning Man From Space 141
NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites 269
See a Supernova From Your Backyard 182
Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes 38
18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up 68
Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight 99
Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point 105
Hubble Shoots Movies of Stellar Jets 30
Astronomers Find Unusual Star 203
Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" 93
Russia Close To Findings On Soyuz and Proton 62
Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid 481
Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System 100
Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away 78
Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty 291
Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle 136
'Instant Cosmic Classic' Supernova Discovered 141
Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar 204
Russian Supply Vehicle To ISS Burns 184
NASA Discovers 7th Closest Star 137
NASA Tries To Save Hubble's Successor 134
Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa 130
New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business 96
Sun May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades 70
Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission 198
What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? 534
DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel 364
Company Wants You to Visit Near-Space In Their "Bloon" 135
Moon Younger Than Previously Thought 212
Graphene In Space Offers Clues To Life On Earth 22
NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions 144
SpaceX Given Approval For ISS Mission 143
NASA Opens New Office For Space Missions 104
Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen 207
Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor — From Space 61
Cutting Edge Tech Slated For Next Mars Rover 143
Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions 212
CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion 379
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight 31
Australian Research Network Plans For 100Gbps 24
NASA Taps 7 Commercial Firms For Suborbital Flights 27
Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006 100
Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites 145
The Fate of the First Known Black Hole 67
Mars Rover Opportunity Set To Roll Into Its Ultimate Crater 48
Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms 111
Anti-Matter Belt Discovered Around Earth 208
SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now) 137
Boeing Employees To Man CST-100 Crew Capsule 77
NASA's Juno Blasts Off To Investigate Jupiter 34
Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons 139
NASA's Plan To Clean Up Space Program Launch Site Contamination 96
Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft 96
First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered 173
Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 572
New Soyuz Launch Facility Near the Equator 127
The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space 75
Kepler to Investigate Newly Discovered Nebula 38
Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS 178
Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly 133
A Congressman and an Astronaut Propose a New Plan For NASA 221
Getting the Latest Rover To Mars 191
Suggesting Innovative Uses For Retired Space Shuttles 127
Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve 183
Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86
Atlantis' Final Reentry Over Cancun, Mexico 26
NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto 208
Computer Science Tools Flood Astronomers With Data 60
Russia Launches Delayed Radiotelescope 35
Do 'Ultracool' Brown Dwarfs Surround Us? 224
NASA Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta 132
Understanding the Payoffs From Investing In Space Flight 264
A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection 99
Marooned Off Vesta 55
SpaceX Dragon As Mars Science Lander? 146
James Webb Space Telescope Closer To the Axe 226
The Dangers Of Amateur Astronomy In Afghanistan 137
Robotic Refueling Experiment Set Up On Space Station 36
China Launching First Space Station Module In September 102
GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection 108
Red Wine Counters Some Negative Health Effects of Microgravity 78
Shuttle Atlantis Docks With International Space Station For the Last Time 91
Comet-Sun Impact Caught On Video 61
Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS 82
SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net 73
NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink 182
Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn 51
Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope 409
Construction of ESA Galaxy Mapping Satellite Completed 45
Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera 50
NASA's Next Mars Rover 104
Can the US Still Lead In Space Despite Shuttle's End? 365
Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam 38
NASA Funded Commercial Space Projects Heating Up 48
ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris 131
ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development 18
Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel 192
First Photos of Asteroid 2011 MD 26
Asteroid To Pass Near Earth On Monday 183
Moon Dust Back In NASA's Hands 73
Dying Star Betelgeuse Spews Fiery Nebula 574
Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria 154
New Find Boosts Prospects For Life On Distant Moons 98
Europe Set To Build Experimental Transport Spacecraft 61
SpaceX Sues Valador For Defamation 111
Weather Satellites Lose Funding 275

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