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Insight: The end of a pioneering Mars probe?
The Mars Global Surveyor, now missing, not only revealed an active, stormy planet with a watery past, but pioneered a risky space-flight technique
Stunning snaps from best camera ever sent to Mars
A strangely persistent patch of frozen water and unusual craters feature among early images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Carbon globules in meteorite may have seeded Earth life
New research shows the bubbles formed before the Earth appeared, and possibly before the Sun, in temperatures near absolute zero
Solar probe films plasma loops in action
Japan's Hinode spacecraft provides a tantalising preview of what to expect when it powers up to its main phase of scientific observations
NASA is 'go' for December shuttle launch
The 12-day construction mission to the International Space Station aims to fly out and back in time for Christmas
New Horizons spacecraft gets first glimpse of Pluto
The images were taken as part of a test of the ability of New Horizons to navigate using optical images of the stars
Wish list for Moon-based astronomers revealed
With humans planning to return to our satellite, astronomers have come up with nine objectives for future observatories on the Moon
Gamma ray 'clock' found creating antimatter
The star system, so far unique to science, also provides the first clear sign of light being converted into matter and antimatter outside of the lab
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The solar system, but not as we know it
If we think we understand how the solar system came to be, then we'd better think again, as
Europe joins hunt for missing Mars probe
The search party for NASA's missing Mars Global Surveyor is growing, while the suddenly silent probe stubbornly refuses to call home
Boulders dash hopes for Mars landing site
High-resolution images of a potential landing site for the Phoenix craft to touch down reveal boulders that could endanger the whole mission
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Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. Image has been modified.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is designed to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar System. An uninterrupted view of the Sun is achieved by operating SOHO from a permanent vantage point 1.5 million kilometers sunward of the Earth. SOHO was designed to observe the Sun continuously for at least two years.
- New quasar is the oldest yet
- Closing in on the gamma-ray sky
- Milky Way Black Hole May Be A Colossal 'Particle Accelerator'
- Cosmic Lighthouses: Astrophysicists Explain Differences In Brightness Of Supernova Explosions
- Universe Offers 'Eternal Feast,' Cosmologist Says
- Origin Of Darkest Galaxies In The Universe Elucidated
- Scientists Find High Energy Systems Hidden In 'Gas Cocoon'
- Astronomer Finds Closest Gravitational Lensing Galaxy
- First negatively charged molecule found in space
- Binary star pulsates with high-energy gamma rays
- Active galactic nuclei
- Gamma ray 'clock' found creating antimatter
- Astronomers Find First Ever Gamma Ray Clock
