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Universal gravity constant confirmed
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 14 Aug 2015
After a decades-long study of a distant pulsar – pulsating radio star – physicists say they have co…
Kepler mission discovers an Earth-like planet
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 27 Jul 2015
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has confirmed the first near-Earth-sized planet orbiting another star…
Big leap into Neptune’s magnetic field
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 17 Jul 2015
By combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, scientists have modelled Neptune’s ma…
Pluto’s ice secrets revealed
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 16 Jul 2015
Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed an abundance of methane ice on Pluto.!--mo…
NASA’s probe reaches Pluto
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 15 Jul 2015
After more than nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizon mission spacecraft has …
New Director for ESA
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 15 Jul 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA).!--more--
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Elusive magnetospheric plasma tubes finally recorded
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 26 Jun 2015
After 60 years of research, astronomers have finally observed structures of plasma – one of the fou…
Martian glass may reveal ancient life
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 24 Jun 2015
By using data from Mars, geologists have discovered evidence for the presence of glass which may be…
Back in time to discover farthest galaxy
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 12 Jun 2015
Data collected from several space telescopes has allowed astronomers to locate the most distant gal…
Dwarf star explains water origins
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 11 Jun 2015
By using data from a dwarf star, scientists found evidence that water could be delivered to Earth-l…
Martian anti-freeze makes liquid water possible
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 11 May 2015
Data from NASA’s rover – Curiosity – has shown that liquid water could exist on Mars. !--more-- A …
Underground ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 10 Apr 2015
Scientists have used a new approach to find evidence for a subsurface saltwater ocean on Jupiter's …
Japan aims for deep impact
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 22 Jan 2015
The Japanese space agency has launched a mission to return samples collected from deep within an as…
Chancellor puts money where mouth is for mission to Mars
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 19 Jan 2015
In his autumn statement, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has made clear Government’s int…
Hydrogen detected three billion light years
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 5 Jan 2015
Astronomers have detected faint signals of hydrogen gas at a record distance of three billion light…
The answer is in the intergalactic wind
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 24 Nov 2014
Astronomers have observed the first direct evidence that an intergalactic “wind” is stripping galax…
Philae to start drilling
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 14 Nov 2014
Scientists have started drilling into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko amid fears that the battery a…
We are on the comet
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 12 Nov 2014
Philae has now stabilised on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after landing not once; not twice but…
Countdown to Rosetta’s comet landing
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 7 Nov 2014
The Rosetta space mission will attempt the first ever landing on the surface of a comet on 12th Nov…
Half as much dark matter as astronomers thought
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 15 Oct 2014
The Milky Way contains half as much dark matter than previously thought according to new research w…
