As Uranus coasts through a brief window of time when its rings are edge-on to Earth – a view of the planet we get only once every 42 years – astronomers…
Europe's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the…
Writing in Inderscience's Journal of Design Research, the team explains how the new technology, with further industrial development, could eventually make vast…
Dr Stamatios “Tom” Krimigis, the Principal Investigator for the instrument, who is presenting images at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam on…
In December 2006, a series of solar flares produced in a single active region were observed from three different points, each approximately 120 degrees apart….
The combination of high resolution data from SMART-1's AMIE micro-camera and data from the US Clementine mission is helping scientists determine the tectonics…
Research published next week in the Institute of Physics' Journal of Neural Engineering suggests that we could soon be able to diagnose the onset of many brain…
Highlights include new insights on the workings of solar flares and on the mechanism behind coronal heating.Hinode (Sunrise in Japanese) was launched to study…
The combination of high-resolution data from SMART-1’s AMIE micro-camera and data from the US Clementine mission is helping scientists determine the tectonics…
Measurements of water vapour in the atmosphere of Mars by the PFS (Planetary Fourier Spectrometer) and OMEGA (Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l’Eau, les…
Dr Rene Duffard, who is presenting results at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam on Wednesday 22nd August, said, “We appear to have detected…
Professor Ralf Jaumann, from the German aerospace centre DLR, said, “The Lunar Exploration Orbiter will be a unique mission. It will consist of two spacecraft…
“Integrating a high-quality film of silicon nanoparticles 1 nanometer in size directly onto silicon solar cells improves power performance by 60 percent in the…
The researchers, working as part of an international collaboration at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory near L'Aquila, Italy, have made the first…
Observations of the comet using the 8.2 m-ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) show an irregularly-shaped object that is about 4.6 kilometres in diameter with a…
The object, located in the constellation Ursa Minor, is nicknamed Calvera, after the villain in the movie “The Magnificent Seven.” If confirmed, it would be…
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