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Url:http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco
Author(s):Dave Mosher
Language:English
Tags:space, science, astronomy
Description:Dave Mosher brings you the latest news -- and non-news -- in space culture, astronomy, physics, and more with a bit of special Discovery Channel sauce.
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Popularity:33 Followers

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The Space Disco Has Closed! But the Party Isn't Over, It's Been Relocated to a Bigger Dancefloor
Just in case you didn't know (perhaps you live in a cave with no wi-fi coverage), Discovery News has been re-branded, re-designed and re-launched. It's been re-everythinged! The only thi...more
2009-11-10
What Will John Cusack be Doing on Dec. 21, 2012? Skiing.
Wow, today has been an eventful day!This afternoon I had a great interview with Dr. Mike Brown (a.k.a. the planet hunter who killed Pluto by discovering Eris) all about hate-mail, Pluto, Planet X ...more
2009-11-04
Kepler's Exoplanet Hunt On Hold Until 2011
Just when the extra-solar planet hunt seemed to be going so well, NASA has announced that the orbital Earth-like exoplanet hunter will not be able to detect a world like our own until 2011 at the ...more
2009-10-30
5 Frightening (But True) Space Stories
Guest blog post by HowStuffWorks.com science writer and Discovery Space contributor Robert Lamb.There's nothing like a good horror story in space*. I grew up watching Sigourney Weaver outsmart xen...more
2009-10-29
It's Alive! The LHC is Injected with its First Particle Beam
Like the reanimation of a super-cool corpse, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was injected with beams of particles over the weekend and the multi-billion euro project came to life. These are the fi...more
2009-10-26
Amelia Earhart's Scarf to be Flown to the Space Station
This weekend, the story of legendary explorer Amelia Earhart will be told in an epic movie called "Amelia". Earhart will be played by Hilary Swank (who bares more than just a fleeting re...more
2009-10-23
Coming to a Twitter Client Near You: #Moonwatch
Building on the huge success of #Meteorwatch, the UK's Newbury Astronomical Society is currently preparing for the second instalment of #Moonwatch!You might be wondering, what's this #Moonwatch? Wh...more
2009-10-21
Basic Chemistry for Life Detected on Exoplanet HD 209458b
These are very exciting times for extrasolar planet hunters. Dozens of new exoplanets have been discovered (some a little larger than Earth, others several times the size of Jupiter) and astronome...more
2009-10-21
The Search For Extraterrestrial Polluters
So how do you go about spotting an alien civilization? Well, you build a really big radio telescope and point it at the stars. But say if ET isn't transmitting? Say if ET is transmitting, but they...more
2009-10-19
First Ever Black Hole Created on Earth
No, CERN hasn't started slamming protons into each other at the Large Hadron Collider early. And no, a top secret warp drive hasn't been test-driven in Earth orbit (not that we know of a...more
2009-10-15

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