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The latest 20 news in the archive
Aug 25 [BBC] Controversy about the new IAU definition of 'planet'
Aug 24 [IAU] IAU Resolution: Definition of a Planet in the Solar System - Pluto is no longer a planet
Aug 23 [BBC] Anousheh Ansari was confirmed as next space tourist to the ISS
Aug 23 [JPL] Do supermassive black holes in the center of big elliptical galaxies shut down star formation?
Aug 23 [BBC] NASA names new spacecraft 'Orion'
Aug 23 [NRAO] Discovery of a highly unusual magnetar emitting radio pulses
Aug 21 [Harvard] Observations of a collision of two large clusters of galaxies provide the strongest evidence yet that dark matter exists.
Aug 21 [BBC] Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto failed the medical test and will not fly as a space tourist to the ISS.
Aug 18 [NASA] STS-115: The launch countdown for Space Shuttle Atlantis will begin on Aug 24
Aug 18 [NASA] NASA Selects Crew and Cargo Transportation to Orbit Partners
Aug 17 [ESO/MPG] Discovery of rapidly forming, large proto-disc galaxies only three billion years after the big bang
Aug 16 [IAU] The IAU draft definition of 'planet' and 'plutons'
Aug 10 [ESO] Stars Too Old to be Trusted? A possible Stellar Solution to the Cosmological Lithium Problem
Aug 08 [Harvard] Chandra Independently Determines Hubble Constant
Aug 07 [NRAO] Researchers Use NRAO Telescope to Study Formation Of Chemical Precursors to Life
Aug 04 [ESO] The 'Planemo' Twins. Astronomers Discover Double Planetary Mass Object
Aug 03 [ESO] A Sub-Stellar Jonah. Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed
Aug 01 [Berkeley] New images of Jupiter's red spots
Jul 31 [Berkeley] Mars' dust storms may produce peroxide snow
Jul 27 [JPL] Cassini Finds Lakes on Titan's Arctic Region


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