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27 May 2011
Jupiter's moon Io is known to be highly volcanically active - now, data collected by the Gallileo craft looking at...
27 May 2011
Molecular gas streaming away from galaxies has been spotted by the Herschel Telescope. This gas could be responsible...
27 May 2011
Data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us a unique...
27 May 2011
Up to half of all hot Jupiters may orbit their parent star contrary to the star's direction of rotation. New...
27 May 2011
Results from Gravity Probe B test and support Einstein's theories of relativity - and have only been 50 years in...
08 May 2011
Two predictions made from general relativity in 1918 have been finally tested...
28 April 2011
Bacteria can survive accelerations of 400,000g, making it highly likely that bugs could survive an interplanetary crash...
10 April 2011
Samples from comet Wild 2 show that they have been in contact with liquid water in the past
03 April 2011
A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained
20 March 2011
This week, news that MESSENGER has become the first space probe ever to be placed into orbit around the planet Mercury...
06 March 2011
The origins of life on earth are a hotly debated topic among scientists. One theory suggests that meteorites brought...
25 February 2011
The mission Stardust-NExT, to study comet Tempel 1, made it's closest ever flyby, observing the surface of the...
25 February 2011
Astronomers using the Gemini telescope have "weighed" the black hole at the centre of the M87 Galaxy. They...
25 February 2011
NASA's WISE mission, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has spotted the bow shock of a runaway star...
25 February 2011
A candidate galaxy spotted at a red shift of 10, likely to be the most distant object observed so far, gives us a...
25 February 2011
NASA's STEREO mission - a pair of twin probes monitoring the Sun, have now reached 180 degree separation, allowing...
20 February 2011
First picture of the Earth's plasma tail has been taken, and it is more dynamic than expected.
25 January 2011
Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has been used by amateur astronomers worldwide to spot...
25 January 2011
Red Dwarf stars seem to be far more active than previously thought - good news for astronomers, but terrible news for...
25 January 2011
This month, researchers working on the Planck project released their first science data - including new galaxy clusters...
25 January 2011
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed an extremely close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning incredible...
25 January 2011
Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroid impact? A new study evaluates the myth that the giant planet acts as our...
25 January 2011
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III has released some incredible images of the night sky, and announced plans to image...
19 December 2010
Scientists working on data from the SORCE mission have found that the sun changes through it's solar cycle...