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GRAIL visualises man in the Moon
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 8 Oct 2014
The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma…
Meteorite points to life on Mars
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 24 Sep 2014
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…
Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 22 Sep 2014
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…
Alice returns results
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 15 Sep 2014
Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully…
Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 5 Sep 2014
A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers.!--more…
Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 27 Aug 2014
A near-Earth asteroid rotates so quickly that it defies gravity and is held together by van der Waa…
Rosetta catches up to comet 67P
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 6 Aug 2014
Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.!--mor…
Voyager may not be in interstellar space
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Aug 2014
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic mil…
Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Jul 2014
NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as …
Spectral rule to measure stars
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 1 Jul 2014
Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars.!--more-- It is the firs…
Supernova explosions recreated in the lab
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 12 Jun 2014
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…
Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 6 Jun 2014
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth…
Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Jun 2014
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year…
Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 25 Apr 2014
Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed …
A change of heart…in space
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 10 Apr 2014
Astronauts’ hearts become more spherical in space say NASA scientists, which could lead to cardiac …
Super-Earths likely to be dead worlds
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Apr 2014
Many of the super-Earths discovered in recent planet-hunting missions are likely to be dead, uninha…
Cosmic collision created ringed planet
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 1 Apr 2014
A comet-like planet surrounded by two fine rings of ice and pebbles has been found between Saturn a…
The slow thaw
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 19 Mar 2014
Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big B…
New evidence for Big Bang
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 17 Mar 2014
Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansio…
Wobbly spinning top planet found
hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 12 Mar 2014
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the c…
