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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:50:53 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:50:53 -0500 30 Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter show lava flows on the Syrtis Major region of the planet, which was nce thought to be a sea of water. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223243/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:00:12 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223243/cs/1/ NASA has sent back its first footage of the 'dark' side of the moon, the one that is not visible from the Earth. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203198696/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:13 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203198696/cs/1/ Researchers have discovered two new planets, named Kepler-34 and Kepler-35, each of which is circling around its own double suns. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203194005/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:40:33 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203194005/cs/1/ NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant "magnified" galaxy discovered yet in the universe. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203194002/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:40:27 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203194002/cs/1/ Google Earth has upgraded its ocean data to offer the most precise digital view of the seafloor to date. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203192719/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:10:02 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203192719/cs/1/ The latest version of NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to guarantee sustained availability of measurements of the en http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203192713/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:50:12 -0500 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203192713/cs/1/ The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:07 -0500 VOA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226643/ additional breathing space , thanks to legislation that was approved by the House on Friday and seems certain to become law.The provision takes up just a few words in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226659/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:02 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226659/ This false-color view of Toro Crater on Mars was captured on Dec. 1, 2011, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and released on Wednesday. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226660/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:35:56 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226660/ This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 2000 on Valentine's Day, immediately ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226661/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:35:51 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226661/ The biggest mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the Earth's marine life occurred in phases and took hundreds of thousands of years to complete, experts have said. According to a study ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222585/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:54 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222585/ Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth along with three other planets orbiting a nearby star and it is just 22 light years away from Earth. Super-Earth takes about 28 days to ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226665/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:50 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226665/ Android developer Web site as the company has removed nearly all reference to CDMA phones and tablets from its official documents and Google's developer site, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226388/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:49 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226388/ Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Rodney Ellis on Friday sent congratulatory letters to the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, greeting the Chinese lunar new year and expressing hopes for ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223480/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:33 -0500 Global Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223480/ China's premier said Friday that the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and quotas for both domestic and foreign ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226664/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:25:47 -0500 Global Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226664/ Jupiter is probably the best place in the solar system to study how the magnetic fields of planets are generated. The Juno spacecraft will make the five-year, 400-million-mile voyage to Jupiter and ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226653/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:01 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226653/ Have you ever asked yourself ';Where am I?'; ';What am I?'; ';Who am I?';; Have you ever just stopped to ask ';where is the universe?'; Let us deviate from ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:40 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226644/ Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this stunning nighttime panorama of the major cities along the East Coast of the United States on Jan. 29, 2012. Credit: NASA Do ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226656/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:03 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226656/ A 3-d view of a well-preserved and unnamed impact crater on Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Click for high-resolution ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226655/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:02 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226655/ The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a probe on it ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226654/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:01 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226654/ Blue Marble " views, come from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The minivan-size spacecraft is the first of its kind: an Earth-observing satellite built to collect ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226658/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:19 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226658/ WORCESTER, Mass. - Venus Williams's comeback to competitive tennis will have to wait at least one more day. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:20:14 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226652/ SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — NASA has awarded $73 million to San Jose State University to participate in research on how people interact with new technology that will be introduced during an overhaul ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222235/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:15:20 -0500 CBS 5 http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222235/ NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220123/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:22 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220123/ This photo from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth in "Blue Marble" view. The photo, released Feb. 2, 2012, is a companion to a NASA image showing the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220125/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:15 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220125/ The first WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system has undergone extensive tests. Next to come are critical rocket-powered flights of the two-pilot, six-passenger ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220126/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:12 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220126/ , NBC's white-hot singing competition featuring Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton. We posted an excerpt of Brian Hiatt's cover story, in which the four stars ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203214149/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:36:19 -0500 Rolling Stone http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203214149/ February 3, 2012 As it circles Earth, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer hunts for particles streaming in from beyond the solar system. It has intercepted hydrogen, helium, neon and oxygen ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220131/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:32:38 -0500 NPR http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220131/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  — It's the kind of question a presidential candidate might ask: "Why should we spend money on space programs and going to Mars, when we need dollars so ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220133/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:19 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220133/ NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220134/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:10 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220134/ A still from a broadcast report on the English-language Iranian Press TV is said to show the launch of the Navid observation satellite into orbit early ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220135/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:06 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220135/ New experiments on the International Space Station may reveal tips on fighting fires in space, and back here on Earth, too. In space, where there is no up or down, and the atmosphere and pressure ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220136/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:59 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220136/ An uncanny twin of our own Milky Way galaxy takes center stage in a new cosmic portrait by the Hubble Space Telescope unveiled Friday. The amazing photo shows the galaxy NGC 1073, a barred spiral ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220132/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:47 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220132/ NASA 's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet - huge mosaics of many images stitched together at the highest-resolution yet obtained. But ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220096/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:06:43 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220096/ As a followup to last week's wildly popular shot of our planet's Western Hemisphere, NASA has now released the flipside (which just might turn out to be the more popular track in the long ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220128/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:05:48 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220128/ The Vatican announced that it will be co-hosting a major science exhibition in Pisa, Italy, the hometown of astronomer Galileo Galilei, who four centuries ago was branded a heretic by the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203215874/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:03:21 -0500 Christian Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203215874/ Covering 180 miles of Oregon coast travel: Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203217876/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:56:43 -0500 Beach Connection http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203217876/ The Progress space freighter blasts off from its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 30, 2011. Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203214544/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:03 -0500 National Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203214544/ (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) The technologies needed back in the days of the Apollo space missions were well understood. But with NASA's current missions, it faces a broader and more ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203213818/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:37 -0500 CNet http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203213818/ A depiction shows a "super-Earth" planet in the zone of its parent star, which is part of a group that involves two "binary" suns that orbit each other, plus a third that might ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220144/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:18:14 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220144/ A long time ago, but on this planet, a Greek philosopher created an experiment to measure the radius of the Earth. Really, it was a cool experiment. But should we trust the ancient Greeks? No. So ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220129/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:17:58 -0500 Wired News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220129/ A massive crack in a huge sheet of Antarctic ice discovered in mid-October last year is steadily growing, as seen in recently released satellite images. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220117/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:44 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220117/ That's not all. A chill runs down your spine when you see it: a massive, Jupiter-like planet looms above you, as large as the Earth's moon. Bands of rippling clouds and whirling storms ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220140/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:14:08 -0500 New Scientist http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220140/ Auroras are shimmering curtains of light caused when charged particles slam into a planet's magnetic field. Earth's northern and southern lights are active only when the sun releases a big ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220139/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:14:07 -0500 New Scientist http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220139/ International Space Station .The brightest lights at bottom center come from Belgium and the Netherlands, while the glow of the British Isles is partially obscured by the solar arrays at ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203219953/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:11:52 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203219953/ Having said that, Duda, Newman and a team of other researchers are working on a project to develop a new spacesuit design that can help counteract these ';space threats'; as well as combat ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220138/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:18 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220138/ Astronomy.FM ? If not, you should join the audience of over 25,000 listeners in 85 countries who are enjoying this amazing free service. Astronomy.FM is billed as "The only all-Astronomy radio ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220119/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:08 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220119/ Early plants on Earth may have helped create the rivers and fertile soil which later allowed forests and farmlands to thrive. Credit: Wikimedia Commons According to conventional thinking, plant ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220120/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:07 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220120/ Blue Marble " image (click for original, high-resolution image), this time showcasing Africa and the Middle East. From NASA: The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220111/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:01:14 -0500 US Government Technology http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220111/ A former climbing coach at Earth Treks in Columbia who pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl could spend another three years behind bars. Michael J. Lyons, a 32-year-old ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220118/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:49 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203220118/ An international team of oceanic experts have found an alien ship from Planet Gootan National on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The ship was abandoned, but experts from the U.N. Panel of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203213031/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:27:40 -0500 The Korea Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203213031/ The Vatican's Observatory is helping organize an exhibition that will delve into the history of the universe at both the human and celestial levels."Stories from another world: The ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203215862/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:26 -0500 EWTN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203215862/ Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the moon may not be so loony. The contender for the Republican presidential nomination promised to establish a permanent lunar base by 2020 with as many as 13,000 ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210599/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:45:42 -0500 The Globe and Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210599/ Skywatching enthusiasts, rejoice! The makers of a popular astronomy app have released a series of free star maps and new educational tools to help both casual and more experienced stargazers learn ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210610/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:42:55 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210610/ During off-duty time in the Spacehab Module, astronaut Shannon W. Lucid uses the microgravity of space to fabricate her own kind of easy chair as the days of her lengthy Russian Mir Space Station ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210614/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:42:51 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210614/ Predicting the future is always a tricky business — just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there’s a snowstorm that seems to come ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210588/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:39:30 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210588/ NASA satellites have watched as wind shear has torn Cyclone Iggy apart over the last day. NASA infrared satellite imagery showed that Iggy’s strongest thunderstorms have been pushed away from ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203205615/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:39:29 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203205615/ RANGIA: Three persons were killed and over 50 injured when a passenger train derailed after hitting an earth-cutting vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203209174/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:59:53 -0500 Times of India http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203209174/ Tamara Murphy's latest venture, Terra Plata on Capitol Hill, is a casual, convivial restaurant that presents its earth-conscious, locavore mission in every ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210600/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:58:27 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210600/ New experiments on the International Space Station may reveal tips on fighting fires in space, and back here on Earth, too. In space, where there is no up or down, and the atmosphere and pressure ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210602/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:55:03 -0500 Yahoo http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210602/ Footage filmed by the spacecraft Grail of the dark side of the Moon has been released by Nasa. The video is the first of its kind and it was filmed on January 19, when Grail flew from the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210593/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:36:10 -0500 ITN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210593/ A dashboard camera in a police car in Texas has captured what authorities say was a meteor crashing to Earth. The officer was outside the vehicle at the time speaking to the driver of a car he ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203205778/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:36:08 -0500 ITN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203205778/ Samsung Galaxy Note, known as the first hybrid of the smartphone and tablet, will hit the U.S. market on Feb. 17. The shape, size and features of the phone have already generated a great amount of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210616/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:19:26 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210616/ The search for exoplanets, or worlds orbiting other stars, is evolving so fast that discoveries that seemed exotic just a few months ago have become commonplace. Multiple-planet solar systems? ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210608/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:55:50 -0500 Time http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203210608/ Science News: WASHINGTON, NASA still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program. NASA relies ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203201182/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:23:38 -0500 KeralaNext http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203201182/ Nasa scientists have obtained some clues about the formation of the universe using the space agency's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Scientists have discovered four mysterious atoms ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203417/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:19:11 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203417/ A week-long Lunar New Year holiday failed to stimulate the memory market in China, according to inSpectrum. With the Europe and US markets quiet as well, demand has been weaker than expected, the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203414/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:10:08 -0500 Digitimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203414/ The largest solar radiation outburst in six years has reached Earth, having hit our planet with high-energy atomic particles at around 2 pm GMT, scientists say, threatening possible malfunction of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203420/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:56:21 -0500 RT http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203203420/ It's a conspiracy theorist's dream. One nation holds most of the planet's supply of "rare earths", the metals and alloys key to building many of the developed world's ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203200011/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:29:41 -0500 The Guardian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203200011/ The spectacularly fast-whirling dead stars known as millisecond pulsars put the brakes on their spinning in large part by blasting pieces of themselves into space, a new model suggests. Pulsars ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197991/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:38:56 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197991/ This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first "habitable zone" planet discovered by NASA's Kepler ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197992/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:38:47 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197992/ Scientists have found a potential super-Earth, the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, located in the habitable zone of its host star, with more habitable exoplanets expected ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197999/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:30:49 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197999/ Nasa has captured its first unique view of the moon's far side with its lunar spacecraft Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). In the Nasa video, which runs for around 30 seconds, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203198000/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:30:25 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203198000/ A camera on board one of Nasa's lunar spacecraft has captured video of the far side of the Moon. They are the first pictures sent back from one of the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197963/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:08:33 -0500 Orange News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197963/ SpaceX test fires its SuperDraco engine that will eventually power the manned Dragon spacecraft launch escape system critical for Astronaut safety during launch to orbit. Credit: ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197987/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:34:59 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197987/ Visualization of the GPM Core Observatory and Partner Satellites (NASA) An international plan is unfolding that will launch satellites into orbit to study global snowfall precipitation with ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197988/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:34:58 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197988/ Samsung Company will be launching its Galaxy S II and the launch is expected to be huge, much like the launch of the Galaxy S II was. Right now, the specifications that come along with the Galaxy S ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197996/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:32:24 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197996/ Samsung has announced it will be holding its own press conference, sometime before June, to announce the Galaxy S3. Many observers had reported Samsung would unveil their new phone at MWC, but it ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197998/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:31:51 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197998/ AT&T , America's second largest provider of mobile telephony, is expected to release an array of new 4G LTE phones this year of which Nokia ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197995/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:31:20 -0500 IBTimes http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197995/ My muscles ached from swimming with 400 dolphins beyond that surf, and my head swam from sampling almost as many wines at the vineyard outside town. I was looking forward to a dinner of drippingly ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197993/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:02:15 -0500 The Independent http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203197993/ What was once a bicycle manufacturer in in the late-19th century evolved into a plane and rocket producer by the mid-20th century. Still a mainstay today, the Soyuz rocket has launched hundreds of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191944/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:16:25 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191944/ At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-14M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program, Jan. 24, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191946/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:16:19 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191946/ A squad car from the Little River-Academy Police Department in Texas captured a fireball lighting up the night sky on its dashboard camera on February 1, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191948/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:16:16 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203191948/