May 11

A new survey is monitoring a million massive stars to see if any suddenly disappear, imploding to become black holes

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May 11

Faux news anchor Stephen Colbert took one giant leap for comedy yesterday when he spoke with Garrett Reisman, an astronaut currently living on the International Space Station. Reisman held his own against Colbert, who asked him whether his duties on…

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May 11

Experiments suggest solid iron snow may fall from two layers of clouds inside Mercury’s liquid outer core

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May 11

The US could quickly regain its ability to launch astronauts into space after the 2010 retirement of the space shuttles by flying them up on rockets normally used to carry satellites, a Senate committee was told on Wednesday.The space shuttle…

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May 11

A miniature detector could pick out magnetic rocks on Mars that might have been made by bacteria

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May 11

The European Space Agency is looking for a few good men and women to spearhead a new chapter in space exploration

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May 11

Fossilised sea creatures have been found that coated themselves in tiny diamonds created in the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs

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May 11

China tested an anti-satellite weapon in 2007 simply because it was ready to test – not as a deliberate provocation, one space policy expert says

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May 11

Two dust devils towering nearly a kilometre high have appeared at the exact spot where the Phoenix lander is due to touch down in a few weeks

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May 11

The Copernican principle has it that our corner of the cosmos is nothing special – now researchers say red shift can tell us if this is true

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