Science

ESA’s Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment

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70% of all catalogued objects are in low-Earth orbit (LEO), which extends to 2000 km above the Earth's surface. To...

Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies

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Astronomers have puzzled over why some puny, extremely faint dwarf galaxies spotted in our Milky Way galaxy's...

Flying along the Vela ridge

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Vela C region

Sun Releases X1.1 Class Flare

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This close-up image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows...

LROC Images Copernicus Central Peak

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Copernicus crater central peak casts a long shadow to the west over a crater floor that was flooded with impact melt that...

Hubble Sees Red Giant Blow a Bubble

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Nailing Down the Elusive Higgs Boson

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Illustration of two protons beams colliding in the Large Haldron Collider. Experiments similar to this...

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust

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This artist's concept illustrates a dusty planet-forming disk, similar to the one that vanished around the star...