Black holes caught in tug-of-war
4-7-2009 |
A mysterious phenomenon in which a suppermassive black hole can regulate its energy during a tug-of-war with a hot radia...
Quiet sun lessens trouble for Earth
4-6-2009 | 4
The Sun has been going through a quiet spell recently, with fewer sunspots than in almost one hundred years. This can ha...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking
4-4-2009 | 11
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive churning storm several times the size of the Earth is shrinking according to a new s...
Hidden planet found in old Hubble data
4-3-2009 | 3
Astronomers have developed a new method for finding extrasolar planets in old Hubble Space Telescope images, the new str...
'Mud volcanoes' found on Mars ?
3-30-2009 | 18
Scientists have identified mound-like structures on the northern plains of Mars that are believed to be mud volcanoes, a...
Volunteers flock to space experiment
3-28-2009 | 6
6000 applicants from over 40 countries have signed up for a chance to take part in an experiment designed to see how hum...
Salt water pools may exist on Mars
3-27-2009 | 0
NASA Phoenix Mars lander has detected the presence of perchlorate salts in the planet's soil, indicating that liquid wat...
Finding twin Earths is harder than thought
3-24-2009 | 8
NASA's recently launched Kepler spacecraft is on a mission to find Earth-sized planets around distant stars, but once it...
Liquid saltwater found on Mars
3-23-2009 | 16
Liquid salt water has been found on the legs of the Mars Phoenix Lander, opening the door to the possibility that liquid...
NASA may send fleet of spacecraft to Venus
3-20-2009 | 27
NASA could be sending a small fleet of spacecraft to Venus within the next fifteen years, including two high-altitude ba...
Russia to approve new Moon rocket
3-19-2009 | 4
For the first time since 1964 the Russian space programme is making the Moon its main objective as Russian officials pre...
Earth cyclones and Venusian vortices
3-16-2009 | 1
A feature observed in Venusian vortices that matches a similar feature in Earth's own cyclones has revealed how much the...
Virgin Galactic tests SpaceShipTwo
3-15-2009 | 2
Virgin Galactic are performing test flights of their new WhiteKnightTwo, a large aircraft that will be instrumental in l...
Galaxies protected by dark matter
3-14-2009 | 25
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed new evidence suggesting that galaxies are embedded in and surrounded by halos of...
Cannibalistic Jupiter ate its early moons
3-10-2009 | 12
It has been found that the planet Jupiter may have 'eaten' over 20 moons since the early days of the solar system, with ...
NASA launches search for second Earth
3-7-2009 | 10
NASA has launched its new Kepler spacecraft, marking the beginning of a three-and-a-half year hunt for planets in distan...
Pluto much warmer than thought
3-6-2009 | 1
Using the VLA (Very Large Array) telescope in Chile, astronomers have been able to measure the chemical composition of P...
Obama backs Moon return in NASA budget
3-5-2009 | 8
An overview of President Obama's 2010 budget has revealed that NASA is still on track for humans to return to the Moon b...
Gullies on Mars suggest recent running water
3-4-2009 | 1
New evidence has been found suggesting that water could have flowed on Mars as recently as 1.25 million years ago. Plane...
Russia to send life to Phobos in new mission
3-3-2009 | 10
In its first mission to Mars in over 10 years Russia plan to send a probe to one of the martian moons Phobos later this ...
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