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Satellite collision narrowly missed
5-2-2013 |
4
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope narrowly avoids destruction in an orbital near-miss.
Threat of space debris collisions on the rise
4-23-2013 | 27
Top experts from across the globe are meeting to discuss ways to curb the amount of debris in orbit.
New 'habitable zone' planets discovered
4-19-2013 | 10
NASA's Kepler mission has found several new potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars.
Did twin asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs ?
2-22-2013 | 14
Researchers now believe the killer space rock could have been two asteroids orbiting one another.
NASA to drag asteroid in to lunar orbit ?
1-3-2013 | 27
The US space agency is considering a plan to drag a small asteroid in to orbit around the Moon.
NASA probes to smash in to Moon
12-14-2012 | 15
The twin lunar orbiters Ebb and Flow are being prepared for their final descent on Monday.
'Homeless' planet without a star discovered
11-15-2012 | 30
Astronomers have identified the first ever 'rogue' planet that wanders around with no star to orbit.
Pluto debris poses risk to New Horizons
10-24-2012 | 11
Dangerous debris orbiting around Pluto could prove a hazard to NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.
Planet discovered in Alpha Centauri system
10-17-2012 | 30
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized world in orbit around the next nearest star system to our own.
ISS to change orbit to avoid debris
10-4-2012 | 5
The risk of a space debris impact has prompted Mission Control to propose an orbital change manoeuvre.
Commercial space flights to generate $1.6B ?
8-2-2012 | 2
Suborbital space trips could generate as much as $1.6 billion within the first decade of operations.
Apollo Moon flags still standing
7-31-2012 | 31
New images from the Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter show the Apollo landing site flags still standing.
Distant solar system mirrors our own
7-27-2012 | 18
Planets orbiting a sun-like star exhibit the closest layout to that of our own solar system yet seen.
Mars orbiter repositioned for rover landing
7-26-2012 | 14
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft has been repositioned ahead of August's Curiosity rover landing.
'Hole on Mars' discovered
7-21-2012 | 34
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped a photograph of a strange hole on the Red Planet.
Fifth moon of Pluto discovered
7-14-2012 | 27
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new moon orbiting Pluto.
'Impossible' binary stars discovered
7-8-2012 | 12
Astronomers have discovered two red dwarf stars orbiting one another in a record breaking 2.5 hours.
Shenzhou-9 docks with Tiangong-1
6-19-2012 | 4
China's latest space mission to dock a manned capsule with their orbiting space lab has been a success.
NASA's NuSTAR gearing up for launch
5-23-2012 | 10
A new satellite is set to be launched in to orbit in an effort to hunt for hidden black holes in space.
US secret space plane spends a year in orbit
3-11-2012 | 15
The experimental US Air Force X-37B space plane was supposed to land in December after nine months.
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