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ESA accept probe landing failure

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 20 Oct 2016

ESA scientists have announced that the ExoMars Schiaparelli did not survive its landing onto the Re…

Golden age of galaxies explored by scientists

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 29 Sep 2016

New data has been used to better understand how star formation in younger galaxies is linked to the…

Origin of minor planets’ rings discovered

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 22 Sep 2016

An international team of astronomers have proposed how rings around minor planets known as centaurs…

New understanding of Sun’s infancy possible

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 19 May 2016

The ability to view in depth images of a nearby star has provided an international team of astronom…

Hubble discovers new moon

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 10 May 2016

A small moon has been discovered orbiting Makemake, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, by the Hubbl…

Supermassive black hole find defies science prediction

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 26 Apr 2016

NASA scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely part of the universe, whic…

Einstein’s final prediction confirmed

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 12 Feb 2016

Scientists have announced the detection of gravitational waves, a century after they were predicted…

Cosmic web reveals stellar skeleton

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 23 Dec 2015

Three filaments of hot gas have been revealed by the XMM-Newton space observatory, revealing part o…

What’s the next step for Mars exploration?

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 29 Sep 2015

Following yesterday’s announcement linking dark streaks on the surface of Mars with liquid water, s…

Universal gravity constant confirmed

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 14 Aug 2015

After a decades-long study of a distant pulsar – pulsating radio star – physicists say they have co…

Dwarf star explains water origins

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 11 Jun 2015

By using data from a dwarf star, scientists found evidence that water could be delivered to Earth-l…

Underground ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 10 Apr 2015

Scientists have used a new approach to find evidence for a subsurface saltwater ocean on Jupiter's …

Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…

Alice returns results

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 15 Sep 2014

Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully…

Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 5 Sep 2014

A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers.!--more…

Lithium problem solved…almost

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 4 Sep 2014

Lithium has proved to be a stubborn problem for astrophysicists; the quantities predicted to have r…

Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 12 Jun 2014

A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…

Einstein’s theory aids planet-hunters

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 24 Jun 2013

A team of astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s…

Shedding light on solar flares

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 13 Mar 2013

Astrophysicists at the University of Glasgow are investigating auroras to better understand the mec…

One in six stars has Earth-sized planet

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 4 Feb 2013

A new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data has revealed that about 17% of stars have an Earth-sized p…