International Space Station crewmembers Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov will venture into space on Monday [Mar. 28] morning for the second spacewalk of their tenure
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New Scientist
Peculiar outbursts of X-rays coming from a black hole have provided evidence that it has a mass of about 10,000 Suns, which would place it in a possible new class of black holes
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Chemists have recreated the conditions inside the giant planets with which we share our Solar System. And they've shown that the water inside giants such as Neptune might act
very strangely indeed - Nature
Eight years after Comet Hale-Bopp dazzled astronomers as it passed through the inner solar system, the dirty snowball is still detectable (about 20th magnitude) despite being a whopping 21 astronomical units from the Sun - Sky and Telescope
Space elevators - a futuristic idea in which space is accessed via long tethers with the power needed being transmitted on beams of light - are the target of two new cash prizes, sponsored by NASA - New Scientist