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Space Science News Articles
News articles about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
04 October 2011
The first 90 days of observation from the Messenger probe are providing insight into the formation of Mercury...
08 September 2011
Gold, platinum and many other precious metals are more common in the Earth's crust than models of the planet'...
21 August 2011
Solar seismology may improve space weather forecasts...
07 August 2011
Nasa has launched 3 lego men on their way to Jupiter
07 August 2011
A paper published in this week's issue of the Journal Nature presents evidence that the Earth might once have had...
19 June 2011
Comet Hartley 2 has been found to be a more varied place than was previously expected
19 June 2011
An unique astronomical event – an incredibly bright and long lived burst of gamma rays – was probably the result of a...
05 June 2011
A group of Scandinavian researchers led by Göran Scharmer of Stockholm University have uncovered some clues about how...
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...