Violent Orion Nebula Protostar Solves Meteorite Mystery
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory to probe the turbulent beginnings of a Sun-like star have found evidence of mighty stellar winds that could solve a…
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Intriguing Faint X-Ray Line Hints at Dark Matter
Astronomers using ESA and NASA high-energy observatories have discovered a tantalising clue that hints at an elusive ingredient of our Universe: dark matter. Although thought to…
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Using a Stone-Age Technology to Clear Satellite Debris
Faced with the challenge of capturing tumbling satellites to clear key orbits, ESA is considering turning to an ancient terrestrial technology: the harpoon. Used since the…
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Curiosity Rover Has Been on Mars for One Martian Year
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission’s main goal of determining whether…
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A Sequence of Star-Forming Regions in a Molecular Cloud
Just as children are sorted into age groups at school, so the seeds of new stars can also be found in ‘classes’ of others of similar…
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Doing Science and Spacewalks on the ISS
Three weeks into ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station and the new arrival is now spending more time on scientific…
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Asteroid 2011 MD – a Candidate for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture…
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NASA Hunting for Asteroid to Use on Its Path to Mars
NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to…
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Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies
They may be little, but they pack a big star-forming punch. New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show small galaxies, also known as dwarf galaxies,…
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ESA Satellite Reveals Earth’s Changing Magnetic Field
The first set of high-resolution results from ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation reveals the most recent changes in the magnetic field that protects our planet. Launched in…
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