Dawn spacecraft finishes Mars phaseWith 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
Spanish scientists develop new model to explain movements of the moonTwo 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
NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-EarthsSupercomputer 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
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
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
Researchers find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadowScientists 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
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