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Space Science News Articles
News articles about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
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
Observations with the Very Large Telescope have shed light on how early galaxies grew, by funnelling cold primordial...
17 October 2010
In a case of cosmic forensics that could rival even an episode of CSI, scientists have pinpointed a moment 18 months...
19 September 2010
A selection of headlines from the British Science Festival 2010, held in the city of Birmingham...
19 September 2010
Evidence has been found of a catastrophic period of bombardment on the Moon...
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...
30 May 2010
Astronomers studying enigmatic grooves on the surface of Mars have uncovered secrets about the planet's historic...
25 May 2010
Scientists have discovered a new way for stars to kill themselves, perhaps also explaining where the calcium in our...
10 May 2010
The recently-launched Herschel space telescope has revealed a new way in which massive stars might form - at points...
11 April 2010
Suzanne Smrekar and colleagues have been studying Venus using an instrument on the ESA Venus Express mission and found...
10 April 2010
This week astronomers have solved a long-running debate over the nature of the surface of our neighbour planet, Venus,...
28 February 2010
One quarter of the star clusters in our galaxy may, in fact, be aliens, according to a paper in Monthly Notices of the...
14 February 2010
NASA launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory to monitor the sun in an unprecidented way...
15 November 2009
A European team of scientists may have discovered a shortcut to finding distant planets orbiting far-off stars - you...