Have you ever heard that it's possible to buy property on the moon? Perhaps someone has told you that, thanks to certain loopholes in the legal code, it is possible to purchase your very own parcel of lunar land. And in truth, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2016
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Europe's comet-chasing space probe Rosetta has received its last commands putting it on course to crash-land on the icy surface of the alien world it's been following for more than a decade.
Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2016
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Researchers at Tomsk State University (Russia) and colleagues are developing measures to protect the Earth from potentially dangerous celestial bodies. With the help of the supercomputer SKIF Cyberia, the scientists simulated ...
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2016
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In-flight instructions used by astronaut John Glenn during his historic 1962 Mercury spaceflight have been sold at auction.
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2016
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Mars and Earth got unusually cozy Monday night, drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade.
Space Exploration
May 31, 2016
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The discovery that dung beetles use the light of the Milky Way to navigate in the world has received much praise. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now taken a new step in understanding the existence of these ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2016
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A ninth planet? Astronomer Rob Cockcroft has heard it all before.
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2016
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It was less than an hour into the new day of January 15, 2006 (EST), when tens of thousands of miles above our planet, two cable cutters and two retention bolts fired, releasing a spring which pushed a 101-pound (46-kilogram) ...
Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2016
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What do ancient artefacts, fragments from celestial bodies, microchips and gunshot residue have in common? Their innermost secrets can all be unveiled with the same method. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) uses ...
General Physics
Dec 23, 2015
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An event of cosmic proportions occurred on November 18 when the US congress passed the Space Act of 2015 into law. The legislation will give US space firms the rights to own and sell natural resources they mine from bodies ...
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2015
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