ET to receive a 'crowd-sourced' message?
Message for ET NASA's New Horizons spacecraft could depart our solar system carrying messages for extra terrestrials sourced from ordinary earthlings
Prawn nebula gets amateur touch
Helping hand An amateur astrophotographer in Australia has helped produce the sharpest image ever taken of a massive star forming region called the P
Astronomers untangle asteroids from comets
Rock comets A new view of two solar system bodies has revealed an asteroid masquerading as a comet, and comet that really isn't a comet at all.
Massive galactic cloud survey begins
Galactic gas Astronomers have begun the mammoth task of mapping the largest structures in the Milky Way galaxy, the giant molecular clouds where star
Dung beetle astronomy study wins Ig Nobel
Ig Nobel awards The discovery that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate is among the achievements being awarded at this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
Software helps make safe tracks on Mars
Martian tracks Getting bogged in a sand trap while driving off road can ruin your day on planet Earth, but as NASA's rover Spirit discovered, doing i
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