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19 December 2010
Scientists working on data from the SORCE mission have found that the sun changes through it's solar cycle...
19 December 2010
NASA's Voyager 1 mission has travelled so far from our Sun, it no longer experiences the stream of charged...
19 December 2010
Galaxy Zoo - the project that uses the barinpower of it's users to identify interesting aspects in photographs of...
19 December 2010
The discovery of bacteria that appear to thrive on toxic arsenic may have implications for our understanding of the...
19 December 2010
Iron-loving elements like gold and cobolt are found in Earth's crust at greater concentrations that would be...
19 December 2010
Gamma Ray Bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe - but only around half of them are associated...
19 December 2010
A new instrument aboard the SWIFT orbiting telescope has shed new light on the cause of "dark" gamma ray...
12 December 2010
Observations made by the Keck telescope in Hawaii have confirmed a fourth planet orbiting a nearby star but have thrown...
12 December 2010
An American entrepreneur launches a cheese into space
12 December 2010
Saturn’s rings may have originated from a satellite that was stripped of its surface ice when it moved perilously close...
28 November 2010
One of the most unusual things about the earth is the large amount of oxygen in its atmosphere, which isn't stable...
25 November 2010
Spectral analysis has confirmed the sighting of the most distant galaxy ever seen, at a red shift of z=8.6...
25 November 2010
A new model has been used to predict the numbers of Earth-size exoplanets, and found far more than we expected. Now we...
25 November 2010
Enormous bubbles of gamma ray radiation may be evidence that the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way may have...
25 November 2010
Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in...
25 November 2010
New evidence from Galaxy Zoo suggests that galaxies with a central bar are more likely to contain older, red stars,...
24 October 2010
A team of astronomers have successfully looked back about 13 billion years to pinpoint one of the first galaxies to...
17 October 2010
In a case of cosmic forensics that could rival even an episode of CSI, scientists have pinpointed a moment 18 months...
17 October 2010
Observations with the Very Large Telescope have shed light on how early galaxies grew, by funnelling cold primordial...
19 September 2010
Evidence has been found of a catastrophic period of bombardment on the Moon...
19 September 2010
A selection of headlines from the British Science Festival 2010, held in the city of Birmingham...
12 September 2010
A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal presents the first direct observations of small asteroids in...
27 June 2010
Astronomers have been looking to distant galaxies for clues on closing the gap on estimates for the mass of the...
20 June 2010
Scientists internationally have successfully measured the diameter and brightness of an object 6 billion kilometres...