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A new study concludes that 70 per cent of the dust that is found between the Sun and Mars comes from comets, 22 per cent is from asteroids and around seven and a half per cent comes from outside the solar system, dust from interstellar space.
Jan 31st, 2013
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A new way of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies.
Jan 31st, 2013
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First public collection of spacecraft-associated bacteria founded by the European Space Agency.
Jan 31st, 2013
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Using the latest data, the Penn State Department of Geosciences team has developed an updated model for determining whether discovered planets fall within a habitable zone.
Jan 30th, 2013
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Astronomers determine the mass of the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.
Jan 30th, 2013
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A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to make even more planets than we have in our own solar system.
Jan 30th, 2013
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They fit in your hand, weigh no more than a bag of sugar, yet fly in space and perform experiments. They are CubeSats, a new generation of miniature satellites. Now, ESA is looking for the best student-built CubeSats to launch into space.
Jan 30th, 2013
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Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers from Brown University.
Jan 29th, 2013
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When the solar wind nearly breaks off, our neighbour's ionosphere expands into space.
Jan 29th, 2013
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The UNAWE (Universe Awareness) project is developing "Universe in a Box", a low-cost activity kit to help teachers introduce astronomy to their students. It provides both practical activities and the materials needed.
Jan 29th, 2013
Read moreInitially only operable from a desktop computer, with the approach outlined in the study, THOR is now accessible online from NASA's Precipitation Processing System website. This allows researchers to remotely examine the 15-year archive of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite data.
Jan 29th, 2013
Read moreNASA wants to know how you can improve the International Space Station as a technology test bed.
Jan 28th, 2013
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Pulsars - tiny spinning stars, heavier than the sun and smaller than a city - have puzzled scientists since they were discovered in 1967. Now, new observations by an international team make these bizarre stars even more puzzling.
Jan 25th, 2013
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A University of Alberta professor has revealed the workings of a celestial event involving binary stars that produce an explosion so powerful its luminosity ranks close to that of a supernova, an exploding star.
Jan 24th, 2013
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NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Jan 24th, 2013
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While studying a meteorite from Vesta, geoscientists found evidence that planet-like dynamic processes also occurred in the asteroid. Simulations by scientist Gregor Golabek from ETH Zurich confirmed this assumption.
Jan 24th, 2013
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