Now, at the 2005 Joint Assembly meeting organised by the American Geophysical Union, space scientists say they are confident - and agreed - that Voyager has gone beyond the termination shock and is flirting with deep space.
Meanwhile, in space, scientists are looking for the signatures of dark matter and dark energy.
Meanwhiel, in space, scientists are looking for the signatures of dark matter and dark energy.
It would be an understatement to say there's been a long build-up to the moment when Voyager 1 ventures into interstellar space: scientists thought the probe was on the edge back in 2010, and we've been waiting for the official milestone ever since.
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As of December, Branson had 500 space tourists and scientists alike signed up for trips with Virgin Galactic.
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At Cornell University, researchers are experimenting with using 3D printers to print food that could be eaten by astronauts in space, and scientists in Edinburgh successfully 3D-printed embryonic stem cells for the first time, demonstrating how 3D-printing technology could one day eliminate the need for organ donation.
President Obama appointed the Augustine committee in May to gather information from space agency officials, scientists, the aerospace industry and from Congress about the best future course for US manned space flight.
J002E3, as the object was called, actually skimmed past the Moon before whizzing back out into deeper space, disappointing the scientists.
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"To be able to have something like SpaceCraftTwo to put scientists in space ... at a relatively low cost, it's transforming for science, " Attenborough said.
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For years, scientists and space enthusiasts have dreamed that new methods of harnessing solar energy and mining precious metals in space could lead to huge profits.
The space also forced solitary scientists to mix and mingle.
On January the 28, 1986, the seven courageous Americans of the Space Shuttle Challenger -- parents and scientists, pilots, and our first teacher in space -- gave their souls back to God.
President Ahmadinejad made his space-travel offer during an address to scientists on Iran's national day of space technology in Tehran, state media report.
The crew exploration vehicle will be capable of ferrying astronauts and scientists to the space station after the shuttle is retired.
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When it arrives at the space station in 2015, scientists will blow it up and let it sit for a few days to test for leaks.
Japanese space agency (Jaxa) scientists want to detect a measurable acceleration in the spacecraft as photons - the particles of light - from the Sun fall on the roughly 200-sq-m, ultra-thin sheet.
Increased access to space will bring challenges for medical experts and scientists alike as they attempt to minimise the side-effects of space travel for the general public while promoting the exhilaration of floating in microgravity.
The national space agency, Roscosmos, said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments.
The national space agency, Roscosmos, said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments, according to RIA Novosti.
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Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1916, offering a description of gravity, space and time that transformed how scientists understand the physical laws governing the known universe.
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But in recent years, he has lobbied NASA extensively to get the agency to use him for geriatric research, helping to connect the space agency's researchers with scientists eager to see how weightlessness may affect human aging.
For the first time, scientists working at the Hubble Space Telescope were able to directly observe a quasar accretion disc.
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This barred scientists from using microplates in space, where researchers prize the absence of gravity for its insights into how crystals, bacteria and drug agents behave.
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At a meeting at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland this week, scientists outlined what this could achieve.
Kennedy's summons to space only needed to jolt a few thousand scientists into doing something they did not know they could do.
Scientists can already study earthquakes from space, in particular through the use of radar to map the deformation of the ground that results when faults rupture.
Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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And some are politically telling: the empty highway from Pyongyang, people piling onto trucks for transportation, postcards showing soldiers attacking Americans, banners praising the scientists who sent a rocket into space.
The Curiosity rover discovered that the chemistry of ancient Mars could have supported simple microbes more than three billion years ago, about the time that life first arose on Earth, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday.
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