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NASA views "funny tasting" planet
4-26-2010 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed an extrasolar planet with a peculiar lack of methane.
Hubble celebrates 20 years in space
4-24-2010 | 1
20 years ago today the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and became our window to the universe.
Hubble snaps Pluto changing colour
2-7-2010 | 7
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures showing Pluto changing colour in a new series of detailed photographs.
New image reveals entire lifecycle of stars
1-6-2010 | 2
The whole lifecycle of a star has been captured in a new image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Hubble spots "space jellyfish"
12-15-2009 | 15
New photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed extraordinary images of planetary systems being formed. On...
New NASA telescope to see invisible stars
12-12-2009 | 7
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope will be able to see neighbouring stars that have been up unti...
Hubble unveils deepest view of universe
12-9-2009 | 4
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the deepest view of the universe ever seen in near-infrared light, the...
NASA's Mars rovers - true explorers ?
12-5-2009 | 2
The true definition of an "explorer" has been called in to question by two astronomers suggesting that the Mars Rovers a...
Herschel 'fingerprints' the biggest star
11-28-2009 |
The European Space Agency's new orbital space telescope has observed the death throes of the largest star known to scien...
Einstein space-time theory proof found
11-2-2009 | 3
Two highly charged particles that have arrived within a second of one another at Nasa's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ...
Newly repaired Hubble takes stunning pictures
9-12-2009 | 3
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a number of stunning new pictures four months following the successful mission to u...
Kepler sees its first exoplanets
8-7-2009 | 2
The Kepler space telescope has discovered its first extrasolar planets. Collecting data on over 50,000 stars during its ...
Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens
5-19-2009 | 2
The upcoming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be able to detect "biosignatures" in the light from ...
Astronauts spacewalk to repair Hubble
5-17-2009 | 1
Astronauts paid a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday and performed some of the toughest spacewalks yet, ins...
Astronauts to make final house call to Hubble
5-9-2009 | 0
On Monday the Hubble Space Telescope will be receiving its final maintenance as astronauts undertake a series of five sp...
SETI chief claims alien contact within 20 years
4-9-2009 | 13
The chief astronomer of SETI has claimed that mankind will make contact with an intelligent alien race within 20 years. ...
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...
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...
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...
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