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...Rusty Schweickart told Canadian Press. The Canadian Space Agency plans to launch NEOSSat, which will circle about 700 kilometers above Earth, next March to look for asteroids that may be hiding near the sun in the search for potential threats from space....

...fancies that when an asteroid threatens Earth, NASA will respond by rounding up a crew and nuking the space rock. Before doing this, though, it would be nice to know exactly what we'd be nuking, and the fact is scientists just don't know. But that may soon...

...Damien Ségransan. If confirmed, this object would be another example of a hot rocky planet, similar to Corot-7b. Since the Earth is suspended in space, it cannot be put on a scale and weighed to be compared to other planets. But scientists can estimate its...

...New Zealand on September 4 was one of the worst to hit New Zealand in 80 years. No deaths have been reported, but the earthquake caused devastation throughout the region of Canterbury. FlickrFlickr has put up a special page with some of the best user images...

...had to be called out to settle the Earth, Wind and Fire concert violence and several people were arrested. It seems that people got too drunk after the Earth, Wind and Fire concert and lost complete control of their doings and hence this violence erupted....