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The Benefits of Upgrading Your Servers
Upgrading your servers now could end up saving you money. Virtualization, consolidation, and higher performance mean that your running costs could be reduced drastically. Learn more about...
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Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)
Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.
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Asteroid of doom - or maybe not
Reports of catastophe caused by a killer asteroid in 2040. But how much of a threat really is it?
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Gallery: Real threats from space
The more you study solar flares and asteroids, the more you want to run for cover. A large asteroid is giving Earth, a close but comfortable encounter.
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Rage (photos)
Rage tells to the story of a scorched Earth, years after an asteroid has hit the planet.
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Smart Planet videos of the week: How to protect Earth from an asteroid strike
Former astronaut and physicist Ed Lu discusses the need to develop an early-warning and precision tracking/guidance system to prevent asteroids from hitting the planet.
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Gallery: NASA releases first closeups of asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is settling into orbit around the asteroid Vesta - more than 114 million miles from Earth.
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Gallery: Dawn spacecraft orbits giant asteroid - first photo
UPDATE - NASA released the first image of Vesta taken by the Dawn spacecraft after it entered into orbit around the planetoid which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids
MIT engineers have developed silicon chips that will be at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month. The system, called...
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Images: A vision for an asteroid mission
A private company in Santa Cruz, Calif., uses its 3D rendering technology to simulate a spacecraft landing on an asteroid.
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Photos: Asteroid hunters leaving/returning to Earth
While NASA plans to launch its Dawn probe to visit two asteroids, a Japanese spacecraft, loaded with asteroid dirt, limps toward home.
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Is there an asteroid in your future?
NASA's Edward Lu explains how a "gravity tractor" could save Earth from an asteroid at the AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com reports.
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Photos: Japanese probe greets asteroid
A Japanese space probe has arrived at its target, a potato-shaped asteroid named Itokawa. Next step, landing.
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Images: Target practice on asteroids
The possibility of a too-close encounter with Earth has spurred the European Space Agency into action.
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Photos: Japanese probe greets asteroid
A Japanese space probe has arrived at its target, a potato-shaped asteroid named Itokawa. Next step, landing.
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Images: Target practice on asteroids
The possibility of a too-close encounter with Earth has spurred the European Space Agency into action.
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Images: Sighting asteroids for target practice
The European Space Agency has named two potential targets for its asteroid-diverting program.
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Who's ready for cyberterror?
Like a doomsday asteroid, cyberattacks threaten to disrupt critical infrastructure services, causing billions of dollars in damage and loss of life. Awareness is critical, but now it’s time to act.
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Updating the Parrot Asteroid's firmware (photos)
The 1.5 firmware update to Parrot's Android-powered Asteroid receiver adds a few valuable functions to its bag of tricks. Here are step-by-step instructions for installing the new software.
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Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)
Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.
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Asteroid of doom - or maybe not
Reports of catastophe caused by a killer asteroid in 2040. But how much of a threat really is it?
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