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A rare isotope of helium gas that formed during the Big Bang is leaking out of the Earths core, providing a major clue as to how our planet first came into being. Known as helium-3, the primordial ga… [+3267 chars]
Despite the best efforts of NASA, samples of moondust collected by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission could fetch more than $1 million next month at Bonhams' space history sale in … [+2625 chars]
TAMPA, Fla. Tucked away on the upcoming Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) will be an experiment from two Moffitt Cancer Center investigators. Drs. Patsy McDonald and Derek Duckett, who also founded Cadw Therap… [+1746 chars]
PARIS Strange lumpy terrain on Pluto unlike anything previously observed in the solar system indicates that giant ice volcanoes were active relatively recently on the dwarf planet, scientists said o… [+2205 chars]
Although they are currently the greatest predators on land, its likely that modern-day cats wouldnt have been a match for the newly discovered Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. At around 42 million year… [+6013 chars]
image: Image of comet C/2014 B1 (Scwartz) taken with the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope. This long-period comet's orbit lies exterior to Saturn's, yet it exhibited cometary activity during its mo… [+4452 chars]
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system’s smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by scientists in the United States, Ca… [+4115 chars]
In the solar system, there are thousands of near-Earth asteroids, and sometimes one will have a close approach with Earth. Krisztian Sarneczky, a Hungarian astronomer at the Konkoly Observatory, man… [+997 chars]
A geomagnetic storm warning has been issued after 17 solar flares were detected erupting from a single sun spot, some of them while it was pointing at Earth. The US space weather prediction centre s… [+2208 chars]
Where: Studio/office Chino Hills, CA USA When: 6-1-2020 Who/What: The represented asteroid is my ... [+] studio photograph of an actual (3" long) meteorite, and I added impact craters with PhotoShop … [+2061 chars]
Researchers from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences observed and verified for the first time that the coronal wave train totally reflected at the coronal hole boundary, which pro… [+2617 chars]
