NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has begun its long march out of the sandy dune in which it got stuck on 25 April. Ground controllers have got it to move more than four centimetres since Friday - considered a big victory - New Scientist
Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft
orbiting that planet - NASA/JPL
A picture-perfect spiral galaxy may harbour two colossal black holes instead of the usual one, new observations suggest. But if it does, astronomers are mystified as to
how the second black hole got there without ruining the galaxy's spiral structure
- New Scientist
Cruising less than 720 miles (1,200 kilometers) above Titan, Cassini's sophisticated radar gave planetary scientists their first up-close glimpse of Titan's surface - Astronomy
An extrasolar planet has been caught dragging the outer layers of its host star around with it as it orbits. The newly discovered “tail wagging the dog” phenomenon may be
common among massive planets in close orbit around their stars
- New Scientist
MOST, Canada's first space telescope, has turned up an important clue about the atmosphere and cloud cover of a mysterious planet around another star, by playing a cosmic game of `hide and seek' as that planet moves behind its parent star in its orbit - Canadian Astronomical Society
Astronomers have spent five weeks studying a very strange star--one that is 10 times as massive as our sun and spews 100 trillion tons of gas into space each second--and have found a method to its mad behavior - Scientific American
Bennett Link of Montana State University and Fiorella Burgio of Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics think pulsars may emit more than their familiar radio beacons - Astronomy
How do you fancy winning a cool quarter-of-a-million dollars? That's the prize on offer for the astronomical alchemist who can create breathable oxygen from moondust - Nature
A NASA satellite that measures the variability in the amount of the Sun's energy that reaches Earth's atmosphere and impacts our winds, land and oceans has successfully
accomplished its five-year primary mission - NASA/JPL
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