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Space Science News Stories
News articles about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
The date has been set for the next leap second – June 30th 2012. Leap seconds help to keep our incredibly accurate...
A pair of new American spacecraft entered orbit about the Moon over the new year period, with the aim of measuring the...
A Gamma Ray Burst recorded on Christmas day 2010 was a special gift to astronomers...
Giant lake beneath the ice on Europa could harbour life
This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 & 2 –...
In September results indicating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light were released, this week the same...
Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "...
November will see the launch of two new missions to Mars - Phobos Grunt and the Mars Science Laboratory.
Dr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society...
Our Solar System may not be alone in having an abundant supply of water -- that's according to a paper published...
A comet not far from Earth has shed some light on how our planet could have come by much of its water, a new study has...
The first 90 days of observation from the Messenger probe are providing insight into the formation of Mercury...
Gold, platinum and many other precious metals are more common in the Earth's crust than models of the planet'...
Solar seismology may improve space weather forecasts...
Nasa has launched 3 lego men on their way to Jupiter
A paper published in this week's issue of the Journal Nature presents evidence that the Earth might once have had...
Comet Hartley 2 has been found to be a more varied place than was previously expected
An unique astronomical event – an incredibly bright and long lived burst of gamma rays – was probably the result of a...
A group of Scandinavian researchers led by Göran Scharmer of Stockholm University have uncovered some clues about how...
Jupiter's moon Io is known to be highly volcanically active - now, data collected by the Gallileo craft looking at...
Molecular gas streaming away from galaxies has been spotted by the Herschel Telescope. This gas could be responsible...
Data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us a unique...