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Lightweight Telescopes In CubeSats Using Carbon Nanotube Mirrors
Using carbon nanotubes, a team of NASA engineers has created a series of revolutionary new telescope mirrors for a Cubesat…
The Moon Is A Real Attention Junkie
The EPIC camera on-board NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured images of the Moon passing in front of…
ESA Prepares Revolutionary Air Breathing Rocket Engine
The SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) being developed for the European Space Agency could be ready for test firing in…
ESA Discovers Where All The Missing Socks Have Been Going
Thanks to the ESA's Cluster mission, scientists now know that part of the plasma found in our magnetosphere is coming…
New Dwarf Planet Discovered Beyond Neptune
A dwarf planet has been discovered beyond Neptune. It's about 700 km in size, and its orbit takes it 120…
A Planet With A 27,000 Year Orbit & That’s Just Where The Strangeness Begins
In the far-flung system of CVSO 30, two planetary candidates have been found with very different orbits - presenting new…
Astronomers Discover Exoplanet With Triple Sunrises and Sunsets
Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the…
Now, Witness The Power Of This Fully Operational Radio Telescope!
Construction has just finished on the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope
Jovians Distressed At Strange, Tiny & Silent Creatures Aboard Spacecraft
As part of Juno's mission to Jupiter, Lego has fashioned three figurines (representing Jupiter, Juno and Galileo) to accompany the…
First Detection of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water…