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 | The first mission to Mercury in three decades, BepiColombo will prepare to launch in 2013.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 28, 2007 |
 | The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft flew past Jupiter this morning, studying the giant planet while receiving a gravity boost needed to reach the outer solar system. By Richard Talcott
Published: February 28, 2007 |
 | The unique spacecraft is now on track to its next destination: Earth.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 27, 2007 |
 | X rays, likely generated by a magnetic field, give astronomers clues about Herbig stars.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 27, 2007 |
 | Astronomers have directly measured the first spectrum from a known planet orbiting a distant star.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: February 26, 2007 |
 | Twenty years later, observations of SN 1987A are still changing astronomers' knowledge of the death of stars.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: February 23, 2007 |
 | Days after a faint star in Scorpius brightened into a naked-eye nova, yet another nova twinkles in the Scorpion. By Daniel Pendick
Published: February 22, 2007 |
 | New results obtained by the ESA's Cluster satellites provide new insight into auroral arcs.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: February 16, 2007 |
 | The strong clustering of quasars 10 billion light-years away helps astronomers infer that they lie in dark-matter "halos."
Provided by Princeton University, New Jersey
Published: February 15, 2007 |
 | China's deep-space network is ready for its first lunar spacecraft to launch.
Renjiang Xie
Published: February 14, 2007 |
 | Comet collisions have generated an extreme amount of dust in the Helix Nebula.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 13, 2007 |
 | A proposed reduction in NASA's exploration-system budget could prolong the gap in human spaceflight after the shuttle retires. By Daniel Pendick
Published: February 12, 2007 |
 | The solar-exploring spacecraft has reached maximum latitude.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 11, 2007 |
 | New model suggests gamma-ray bursts are powered by magnetic outflow from the collapsed star.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: February 9, 2007 |
 | A new study suggests how astronomers may be able to find out.
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published: February 8, 2007 |
 | The Deep Impact experiment and samples returned by the Stardust spacecraft reveal what comets have in common and their differences. By Laura Layton
Published: February 7, 2007 |
 | Absorbent gas cocoons shroud neutron star-supergiant star pairs, making them nearly invisible.
Provided by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published: February 6, 2007 |
 | Astronomers report a new type of energetic gamma-ray emitter is likely related to supersonic winds in stellar clusters.
Provided by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published: February 6, 2007 |
 | Scientists and engineers will gather in March to discuss tracking near-Earth objects and preventing possible future impacts.
Provided by Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California
Published: February 2, 2007 |
 | The Cassini spacecraft imaged an enormous cloud over Titan's north pole.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: February 2, 2007 |
 | Steady progress keeps this innovative telescope on track to be fully operational by 2010.
By Erin Dolan
Published: February 1, 2007 |
 | Scientists suggest that current probes designed to find life on Mars cannot drill deep enough to find living cells.
Provided by the American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
Published: February 1, 2007 |
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