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First worlds discovered around Sun-like stars in a cluster.
NASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. The findings offer the best…
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September 2012
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Curiosity mission as Spielberg would have done it.
We’ve all seen the recent footage of the landing on Mars from NASA. It was great, if a little low-res. Enter film maker…
August 2012
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Failure is not an option. Or was it?
This makes for poignant reading after Neil Armstrong recently passed away from heart failure. It’s the U.S. President’s planned speech in the event…
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Off we go, then.
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile (400 meters)…
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Black holes. Bloody millions of them!
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or…
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The planets of Cygnus.
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system,…
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The sleeping of the dream.
You’d have to be on Mars not to have heard that astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of…
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Mars, baby! It’s the freakiest show.
Apologies to David Bowie, but now that NASA has successfully landed Curiosity on the Red Planet, the question we’re asking here is, is…