Perhaps one of the more defining and upsetting moments of the decade for 80's kids was when we all basically saw a whole bunch of astronauts die in real-time on television during the ill-fated launch of the ...
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Could some form of microbial life possibly exist on Mars? According to the findings of an international team of researchers, it is highly unlikely that life in any form currently exists on Mars, as conditions on the ...
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Last month NASA released the highest resolution "Blue Marble" image of Earth to date and now the US Space Agency has updated its image repository with the flip side photograph of our planet.
The first image (shown below) ...
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Scientists attempting to map our galaxy have found a trip-star system that could potentially support life and which is only 22 light years away from Earth.
The rocky planet is known as GJ 667Cc and is 4.5 times the ...
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Sorry about the bad play on a Star Wars idiom but it just seem to work in this case given that the discovery of a potential planet is of one located in a galaxy that is only ...
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"Saturn on steroids" - that's the description applied to a newly discovered extrasolar ringed planet that orbits a star like our own.
University of Rochester Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Eric Mamajek is leading a team of ...
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Utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have discovered a cluster of developing galaxies an astonishing 13.1 billion light-years from Earth, making the galaxy clusters the oldest and most distant galaxy clusters ever observed.
Discovered during ...
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The Moon and the planet Venus made an appearance in the night sky on Monday, but if you missed it, worry not - Venus will be appearing again on Tuesday.
In fact, by sunset on Tuesday evening, the ...
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One of man's dreams has always to be able to go out into space and find a new home for us to screw-up live on and one of the places has always been Mars, even though it ...
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Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, has recently been in the spotlight after scientists found that the icy moon may have not only a world-spanning ocean beneath the ice-covered surface, but also lakes as well.
The moon is ...
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I understand that we are running out of spaces where we can have out mortal remains buried so that everyone can come and pay their last respects but the idea of polluting the great expanse of space ...
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A team of astronomers have discovered two massive black holes that are now the largest black holes known to exist throughout the known universe.
The team, led by astronomers at UC Berkeley, discovered the unimaginably large black holes ...
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Yesterday, it was looking as if Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe was as good as dead. Ever since its launch on November 8, officials were having difficulties making contact with the craft after it failed to fire its engines ...
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Europa, one of Jupiter's 64 known moons, has been one of the prime candidates for possible life outside of planet Earth since it was first observed up close in the 1990s. Covered almost entirely in ice, scientists ...
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The Leonid Meteor Shower is set to make its annual appearance later this week, and is expected to be most visible in the eastern sky during the predawn hours of Friday. Those who get lucky may see ...
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Jupiter may be our friendly big brother, protecting us from would-be catastrophes as wandering asteroids get caught up its gravitational pull, but it apparently isn't so friendly to other planets. In fact, it may have even kicked ...
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The Lutetia asteroid is a planet that never properly formed, according to new scientific research. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft flew by the asteroid in July, collecting data that suggests Lutetia is what's called a planetesimal, a body that ...
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In 2005, stargazing scientists discovered a previously unknown planet-like object, dubbed Eris, far off into the deepest reaches of our solar system in the Kuiper belt - even further away from us than Pluto. Its small size, ...
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The 2011 Orionid meteor shower will be visible on earth just before dawn (at around 5am) on Friday October 21st and Saturday October 22nd - but don't expect a spectacular show.
The Orionids are an annual phenomenon that ...
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A new satellite from NASA has been pencilled in for an October 27th launch, and will be the first dedicated to observing key aspects of both Earth's climate and its weather
The catchily-named National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite ...
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The European Space Agency is gearing up for two of the most ambitious space exploration missions yet, the ESA announced today.
The first mission to be launched, the Solar Orbiter, is currently planned to launch at some point ...
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Back in 2004 when the MESSENGER craft was launched to begin its trip to study the planet Mercury planetary scientists had some basic ideas of what the planet would be like but now that images are finally ...
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