RadioAstron, effectively the largest radio telescope ever built, is up and running. The telescope’s main component, a 10-metre radio dish aboard the spacecraft Spectr-R, launched in…
Read the article →The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s…
Read the article →Great news about SETI – the SETI Institute which was shut down in April will start operations again soon. The news comes from Alan Boyle’s Cosmic…
Read the article →NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year…
Read the article →Astronomers have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes…
Read the article →NASA has approved the retargeting of the EPOXI mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010. Hartley 2 was chosen as EPOXI’s…
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