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Space probe Rosetta spots dusty veil around comet

Last Updated: Friday, May 16, 2014, 11:54

The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, target of ESA`s Rosetta mission, has begun to develop a dust coma.

`Lunar Bible` that flew to the moon on Apollo 14 sold for $75k at auction

Last Updated: Friday, May 16, 2014, 11:44

A microfilm Bible regarded as one of the rarest "books" on earth, after flying around the moon once with Apollo 13 and later landing on the moon`s surface with Apollo 14, has been sold at an auction of space memorabilia in Dallas for 75,000 dollars.

Jupiter`s Great Red Spot `shrinks` to lowest ever measured

Last Updated: Friday, May 16, 2014, 11:33

Jupiter`s trademark Great Red Spot - a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth - has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured.

New radar images show unseen side of moon

Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 16:04

Combined efforts of the two largest radio telescopes of their kind - the National Radio Astronomy Observatory`s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have produced images of Earth`s Moon that reveal more than can be seen with the naked eye.

Mystery of magnetars` formation revealed

Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 15:50

Researchers have now solved the mystery regarding the formation of magnetars.

Solar winds increase lightning strikes on earth: Study

Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 14:30

A new study suggests that lightning on earth is triggered by energy particles from the Sun.

South African astronomers discover stars in galactic flare

Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 06:04

South African astronomers have discovered the very first known stars in the flared disk of the Milky Way Galaxy.

NASA to land astronauts on asteroids by 2020s

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 22:37

The US space agency, NASA, says it plans to send astronauts into space to land on an asteroid in 2020s.

Radiation from early universe may help prove Einstein`s theory of general relativity

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 22:33

Researchers have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide a cosmological test of Einstein`s theory of general relativity.

ISS crew lands safely in Kazakhstan after 188 days in space

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 22:29

Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) landed in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after 188 days in space, during which they orbited Earth more than 3,000 times and traveled almost 79.8 million miles.