Hypergiant star amazes for 30 years
A European research team has published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star.
Dec 9th, 2012
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A European research team has published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star.
Dec 9th, 2012
Read moreThe United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded SpaceX two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions: DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) and STP-2 (Space Test Program 2)
Dec 7th, 2012
Read moreA team of astronomers led by the University of Leicester has uncovered new evidence that suggests that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness new supernovae that signal the death of massive stars.
Dec 7th, 2012
Read moreA team of former Nasa executives has launched a private venture to send two people to the Moon for $1.4bn.
Dec 7th, 2012
Read moreForty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored by scientists at NASA
Dec 7th, 2012
Read moreNGC 922's current unusual form is a result of a cosmic bullseye millions of years ago. A smaller galaxy, catalogued as 2MASXI J0224301-244443, plunged right through the heart of NGC 922 and shot out the other side.
Dec 6th, 2012
Read moreBuilding on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.
Dec 6th, 2012
Read moreTwin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Dec 6th, 2012
Read moreThe very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
Dec 6th, 2012
Read moreA Cornell-based project called KickSat is set to launch more than 200 tiny satellites, nicknamed "sprites," into low-Earth orbit as part of a routine NASA-administered mission in 2013 to the International Space Station.
Dec 5th, 2012
Read moreVLT observations identify very rare new kind of galaxy.
Dec 5th, 2012
Read moreTwin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth's radiation belts - and they mimic the chirping of birds.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read more$2.1 Million Grant to Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics advances dark energy research at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreBy combining the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterised hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the Universe.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreScientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the internally generated heat that keeps that ocean from freezing relies on the moon's interactions with Saturn and its other moons.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreTwo French researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its kind, was first tested in 2010 on Saturn's moons.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreAlon Efrat and Jonathan Myers of the University of Arizona computer science department are working under a new grant to help improve methods for discovering asteroids on paths toward Earth.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreChinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing.
Dec 4th, 2012
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