NASA detects stratosphere on an impossible planet?
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a strange stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere, on a massive
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The frozen DNA of Martian life?
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Such deposits might provide a delicate
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NASA sounds alert as Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf nears its final act.
A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002,
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Everyone Is African by Daniel J. Fairbanks (book review).
The title of Daniel J. Fairbanks’ book ‘Everyone Is African’ refers to the source of our DNA and how it
Read MoreEuropa’s sea-life? Just became likely with NASA’s salt ocean findings.
NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from
Read MoreMars Challenge.
Got an idea for kickstarting the human settlement of the Red Planet? Then NASA wants to hear from you, pilgrim!
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Mercury Slam . . . how to kill a starship.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface
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How the Zombie Stars scream!
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow
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A Space Traveller’s Guide To The Solar System by Mark Thompson (book review).
Mark Thompson’s book, ‘A Space Traveller’s Guide To The Solar System’, is the ideal fodder for both Science Fiction writers
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The Secret Life Of Space by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest (book review).
The authors Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest should be familiar to people in the UK as being astronomers and astrophysicists
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