Russian official criticizes excessive use of foreign space equipment
The decision to use foreign hardware in Russian space rocket industry was a strategic mistake which had harmed reliability of the final products, a senior Russian official in the space industry said ... more
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Witnessing the early growth of a giant
Astronomers have uncovered for the first time the earliest stages of a massive galaxy forming in the young Universe. The discovery was made possible through combining observations from the NASA/ESA ... more
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Indonesia evacuating thousands after volcano erupts, causes tsunami threat
Vote counting starts in Solomon Islands as China, US trade barbs
'Human-induced' climate change behind deadly Sahel heatwave: study
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What lit up the universe?
New research from UCL shows we will soon uncover the origin of the ultraviolet light that bathes the cosmos, helping scientists understand how galaxies were built.
The study published in The A ... more
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China Aims for the Moon, Plans to Bring Back Lunar Soil
Chinese scientists are in the course of developing a recoverable lunar robotic spacecraft Chang'e 5 that is to reach the Moon by 2017 with a mission to deliver samples of rock and soil back to Earth ... more
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NASA Completes Review of Powerful New Rocket
NASA officials Wednesday announced they have completed a rigorous review of the Space Launch System (SLS) - the heavy-lift, exploration class rocket under development to take humans beyond Earth or ... more
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Detecting neutrinos, physicists look into the heart of the sun
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team of physicists including Andrea Pocar, Laura Cadonati and doctoral student Keith Otis at the University of Mass ... more
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Update on Galileo launch injection anomaly
Work at ESA's ESOC control centre continues relentlessly on the two Galileo satellites.
Despite the non-nominal orbit, the satellites are safely under control after they were released from the ... more
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