Comet's death plunge sheds light on Sun
Sungrazer comet The spectacular death of a comet has provided astronomers with a unprecedented view of our Sun's violent and poorly understood outer
Kepler's worlds bigger than first thought
Upsized stars A team checking up on results from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope finds that most of Kepler's target stars, and therefore
Giant gas world is a real lightweight
Exoplanet find Breaking new ground in the detection of planets beyond our solar system, European astronomers have recorded the most lightweight world
Mars trip beyond astronauts' radiation limits
Radiation levels measured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show astronauts likely would exceed current US exposure limits during a roundtrip mission to Mars, say scientists.
High sodium diet linked to early star death
Dead stars Astronomers have made the shocking discovery that many Sun-like stars are dying before their time.
The study, reported in the jour
Alien material on the Moon
Moon rocks foreign Unusual minerals found in craters on the Moon may be alien, a new study suggests.
The claim is made in a paper published t
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