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This image was taken near the point of closest approach to Mars on 17 February 2009, during Dawn's gravity assist flyby, (c) NASA, JPL, MPS, DLR, IDA, and the Dawn Flight TeamDawn spacecraft finishes Mars phase

— 4 Mar 2009 18:40 | Astronomy

With Mars disappearing in its metaphorical rearview mirror, NASA's Dawn spacecraft's next stop is the asteroid belt and the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn got as close as 549 kilometres... — full story

Installation of CCRs on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, (c) NASASpanish scientists develop new model to explain movements of the moon

— 18 Dec 2008 11:54 | Astronomy

Two researchers from the universities of Valladolid and Alicante are developing a mathematical formula to study the rotation of the moon, taking into account its structure, which comprises... — full story

A glow called the zodiacal light can be seen in the sky before sunrise or after sunset. It's formed by sunlight scattered off of dust near the plane of Earth's orbit, (c) Yuri Beletsky, ESO ParanalNASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-Earths

— 14 Oct 2008 10:40 | Astronomy

Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research... — full story

Moving quarks help solve proton spin puzzle

— 12 Sep 2008 19:24 | Physics

New theory work at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement... — full story

Engineering researcher seeks answers to asteroid deflection

— 28 May 2008 13:48 | Astronomy

An Asteroid Deflection Research Centre (ADRC) has been established on the Iowa State campus to bring researchers from around the world to develop asteroid deflection technologies. The... — full story

Image showing the dark side of Europa rising over the Amalthea ring (faint parallel bands of material), main Jovian ring (central brightening) and the halo (bright extended emission near the image edge), (c) NASAResearchers find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow

— 2 May 2008 16:53 | Astronomy

Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies... — full story

Do dwarf galaxies favour MOND over dark matter?

— 3 Apr 2008 12:18 | Astronomy

A detailed analysis of eight dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way indicates that their orbital behaviour can be explained more accurately with Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)... — full story

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