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Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron NASA's Curiosity rover may have found its third meteorite on Mars. This image, taken on 12 January as the rover explored a peak called Mount Sharp, appears to show an iron-nickel meteorite, one of only a handful spotted on the Red Planet....

NASA Satellites Catch a 'Growth Spurt' from a Newborn Protostar Using data from orbiting observatories, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and from ground-based facilities, an international team of astronomers has discovered an outburst from a star thought to be in the earliest phase o...

Discovery could lead to jet engines that run hotter - and cleaner Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends: They've found a way to deactivate "nano twins" to improve the high-temperature properties...

The Planet Neptune in Capricornus Expand (7kb, 1024 x 768) 04:08 UT, 5 July 2008 Exposure 5 Seconds

ATel 9967: Spectroscopic Classification of SN 2017hq as a Type Ia Supernova

ATel 9966: Possible Nova in M31

Title: The nearest ultra diffuse galaxy: UGC2162 Author: Ignacio Trujillo, Javier Román, Mercedes Filho, Jorge Sánchez Almeida We describe the structural, stellar population and gas properties of the nearest Ultra Diffuse Galaxy (UDG) discovered so far: UGC2162 (z=0.00392; R_e,g=1.7(±0.2...

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Hunt for missing plane may be called off Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has said the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cannot go on forever, and discussions are already underway between Australia, China and Malaysia as to whether to call off the hunt within week...

ATel 9964: NOT spectroscopic classification of PS17ha / AT2017jc as a Type Ia supernova

Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer. He has been into space three times: as pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apol...

ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and Mars will help astronomers refine their searches for life on other planets. Venus Expr...

Galactic Serial Killer This new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile shows two contrasting galaxies: NGC 1316, and its smaller neighbour NGC 1317. These two are quite close to each other in space, but they have very different histories. The small spiral...

Title: L1188: a promising candidate of cloud-cloud collision triggering the formation of the low- and intermediate-mass stars Author: Yan Gong, Min Fang, Ruiqing Mao, Shaobo Zhang, Yuan Wang, Yang Su, Xuepeng Chen, Ji Yang, Hongchi Wang, Dengrong Lu We present a new large-scale (4 square degree...

Title: A signature for the absence of event horizons Authors: J. Barbieri, G. Chapline A sharp dip in the spectrum of gamma rays coming from compact objects below 70 MeV would be an unambiguous signal that compact astrophysical objects have a physical surface, and there is no event horizon. Observa...