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 | The new tool will probe matter in extreme environments.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: June 30, 2008 |
 | This new mission will look closer at Titan and Enceladus.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 30, 2008 |
 | The Mars lander has begun testing on collected soil samples.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: June 27, 2008 |
 | The mission is trying to understand what extraterrestrials might sound like.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: June 27, 2008 |
 | A new image released by Hawaii's Gemini Observatory shows two spiral galaxies are in the early stages of a gravitational tug.
Providedy by Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: June 26, 2008 |
 | A Moon-bound NASA spacecraft passes major preflight tests.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 26, 2008 |
 | For the first time, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander placed a sample of martian soil in the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: June 26, 2008 |
 | New computer simulations support evidence of an impact.
Provided by the University of California, Santa Cruz
Published: June 25, 2008 |
 | These new lenses will help detect the dark energy component of our universe.
Provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
Published: June 24, 2008 |
 | Radio-telescope images of hydrogen gas in Seyfert galaxies show the majority of them are disturbed by ongoing encounters with neighbor galaxies.
Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico
Published: June 23, 2008 |
 | According to new research, the proton-electron mass ratio is almost the same 6 billion light-years away.
Provided by the Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Published: June 20, 2008 |
 | Bright chunks found at Phoenix's site must have been ice.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: June 20, 2008 |
 | Lava samples in Hawaii may reveal clues about planetary formation.
Provided by the University of Chicago
Published: June 20, 2008 |
 | Large and small black holes may have similar feeding habits, according to a new study.
Provided by the Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: June 19, 2008 |
 | The trench will help decide what depths soil samples will be collected from.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: June 19, 2008 |
 | The analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and possibly even the size of the two.
Provided by Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Published: June 19, 2008 |
 | NASA's Phoenix lander bakes a soil sample and digs deeper into the martian surface.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: June 17, 2008 |
 | Teams from seven NASA centers and several universities conducted the tests from June 2-13.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 17, 2008 |
 | Astronomers have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: June 16, 2008 |
 | This new finding raises the number of minerals identified by the IMA to 4,345.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 13, 2008 |
 | NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has filled its first oven with martian soil.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 12, 2008 |
 | Undergraduate satellite mission aims to put a dust detector into orbit.
Provided by the University of Leicester, England
Published: June 12, 2008 |
 | The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto.
Provided by the International Astronomical Union, Garching, Germany
Published: June 11, 2008 |
 | NASA's latest observatory will explore the universe's most extreme environments.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 11, 2008 |
 | For thie first time, astronomers have detected a radio jet from a dwarf nova.
Provided by AAVSO, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: June 10, 2008 |
 | Scientists are trying to extract a soil sample from NASA's Phoenix lander.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 9, 2008 |
 | Astronomers exploring a rare type of active galaxy witness how interactions shape their evolution. By Francis Reddy
Published: June 9, 2008 |
 | Observations reveal when black holes snuff out star formation in massive galaxies.
Provided by Oxford Univeristy, United Kindgtom
Published: June 5, 2008 |
 | Multiple mapping techniques revise astronomers' picture of the Milky Way. By Francis Reddy
Published: June 4, 2008 |
 | Astronomers have found a possible signature of an explosive conversion of a neutron star into a quark star.
Provided by the American Astronomical Society, Washington, D.C.
Published: June 3, 2008 |
 | Two Spitzer Space Telescope surveys chart the galactic plane in never-before-seen detail. By Francis Reddy
Published: June 3, 2008 |
 | How tightly a galaxy's spiral arms wind up suggests the mass of its central black hole, researchers say. By Francis Reddy
Published: June 2, 2008 |
 | Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star.
Provided by the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
Published: June 2, 2008 |
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