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Rosetta catches up to comet 67P

August 6, 2014
News
Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.The European Space Agency spacecraft has become the first to rendezvous with a comet, opening up a...
Physics & Engineering
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Voyager may not be in interstellar space

August 4, 2014
News
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic milestone at all. Despite observations suggesting the spacecraft has crossed the boundary, there is...
Physics & Engineering
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Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea

July 4, 2014
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NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as salty as the Dead Sea on Earth. Over the last decade, the Space Agency’s...
Physics & Engineering
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Spectral rule to measure stars

July 1, 2014
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Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars. It is the first standardised set of measurement guidelines for analysing and cataloguing stars: there was previously no...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

June 12, 2014
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A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times more powerful than laser pointers. An international team of researchers used the Vulcan laser at...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

June 6, 2014
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The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth; a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. It was believed...
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Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft

June 4, 2014
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Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft. International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 to study the...
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Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past

April 25, 2014
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Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed data from Messenger. The spacecraft’s first fly-bys of Mercury in 2008 pointed to its explosive...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics, Volcanology
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A change of heart…in space

April 10, 2014
News
Astronauts’ hearts become more spherical in space say NASA scientists, which could lead to cardiac problems in space, and have important implications for manned missions to Mars. A study of...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Pathology, Physics
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Super-Earths likely to be dead worlds

April 4, 2014
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Many of the super-Earths discovered in recent planet-hunting missions are likely to be dead, uninhabitable worlds say Austrian researchers. Although these planets are in the so-called ‘habitable zone’ and appear...
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Astronomy, Physics
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