U2 comet dust predates solar system
An innovative plan to retrieve comet particles from earth's stratosphere has hit pay dirt, with the discovery that some predate the formation of the solar system.
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Spacecraft reveals Mercury's inner planet
MESSENGER's second fly-by of the planet Mercury has shown the solar system's smallest planet to be far more active than previously thought.
During its October 2008 fly
'WaveRider' poised for hypersonic flight
The US military is preparing to test an experimental aircraft that can fly more than six times faster than the speed of sound on ordinary jet fuel.
Officially, it's kn
Solar wind gives asteroids a tanning
Asteroids become redder the longer they stay out in the sun, a finding that could help determine our planetary origins, say US and European researchers.
The research,
Colossal space oddity baffles astronomers
A massive and mysterious gas blob found near the edge of the universe could be a precursor to galaxies, say astronomers.
The object, which they named Himiko, after the
Coolest brown dwarf in universe found
The coolest star-like object ever found outside the solar system has been spotted around 40 light-years away from Earth.
Professor Christopher Tinney of the
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