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Archived News Items — 2007

July 2007

 

Huge telescope to probe galactic origins

‘Space arrow’ to map Earth’s tug

Concern increasing for Rover Opportunity

Supergiant spews life molecules

US & Eur satnavs to share signal

ESO unveils ALMA crawler

New type of active galaxy found

Three dead in spaceport blast

Sabotage of spacebound computer

Mars Rovers still hunkered down

2007 Gruber Cosmology prizes

Interstellar chemistry gets more complex

Io’s gases studied

NASA data to aid weather & climate research

Planets with four parents?

Arizona sky village

Chandra catches ‘piranha’ black holes

Does Milky Way have second black hole?

Planetary debris pollutes star surface

Tiny asteroid found trailing Mars

Spitzer searches for origins of life

Galaxy Evolution Explorer snaps cluster

Saturn’s sixtieth moon discovered

New Saturn moon comes to light

A ringside view of Uranus

Moonshine reflects lunar composition

Tests begin on GTC Canaries telescope

‘Blue needle’ presents new challenge

Stars play tug-of-war with dust discs

Biggest collisions in the Universe

Black holes trigger stellar self-destruct

Astronomers claim galaxy record

Water vapour found on exoplanet

Iapetus retains its youthful figure

Martian dust storm still affecting Rovers

Charon: in the ultimate deep freeze

‘No Sun link’ to climate change

Is dark energy in hidden dimensions?

Evidence for supernova scenario

A knot in space-time spotted?

Star with possible mystery partner

Scientists seek galaxy hunt help

Baby galaxies at dawn of the Universe

Giant outer exoplanets are rare

Jupiter changing its stripes

Stellar fireworks ablaze

Zooplankton move to Moon’s tune

Hydrocarbons on Hyperion

Details on spongy Hyperion

Astronomers shrink Earth 5mm

Dark matter emits hi-energy cosmic rays?

More doubt about wet, early Mars

Saucers in the sky

Universe forgets during re-birth

Dust storm delays Mars’ crater entry

AIM sees night-shining clouds

 

August 2007

 

‘Swiss cheese’ challenges dark energy

UK plan to track asteroid threat

Mars feature not ‘bottomless pit’

Water pelts young star system

Mystery of Sun’s corona whipped?

Magnetic ripples may solve Sun mystery

Kennedy to become Moonport again

2007 ‘wettest UK summer’

SWIFT regains bearings but not vision

US lunar eclipse images

Apollo Moon photos reveal detail

Neutron stars warp spacetime

Long-term changes in tropical rainfall?

Rovers benefit from clearer skies

Mars Rovers resume driving

Spitzer marks anniversary

Great ‘Cosmic Nothingness’ found

Void is 1 billion light-years across

Extra dimensions may be apple-shaped

GUT evidence in black holes?

Planet Uranus rings the changes

Diamond record of ancient Earth

Jupiter shield’s mixed blessing

Jupiter increases risk of comet strike

Google Earth gets celestial view

Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) progress

Endeavour shuttle returns safely

Sun vibrations may ‘shake’ Earth

Camera scans into deepest space

Rare ‘dead’ star found near Earth

Was Supernova birth of Quark star?

What makes Mars magnetic?

How the Big Bang chilled-out

Did life begin on comets?

Brightest galaxies in distant universe

Cosmic ‘wreck’ defies dark matter theories

Dark matter mystery deepens

Monster galaxy pile-up

Colossal tail trails dying star

Stargazers enjoy meteor spectacle

Fermilab hot on Higgs trail

SWIFT telescope suffers glitch

Fiery rock test if life came from space

Warming & cooling link to sunspot cycle

Do sunspot cycles forecast the rain?

Could life exist in DNA-shaped dust?

Swarm of stars is a ‘supernova’ factory

Galaxies clash in four-way merger

Largest known exoplanet puzzles

Largest exoplanet found

Cause of ‘smoking stars’

Lift-off for Phoenix Mars probe

Does caffeine perk-up memory?

Saturn’s G-ring mystery is solved

Possible origin to one of Saturn’s rings

Fisherman catches ‘living fossil’

Poor reception for alien TV

Planet found round red giant

Cassini to buzz Enceladus plume

China’s new spectroscopic wonder

Mars hoax is back

Perseids set to dazzle

 

September 2007

 

Next-generation ion engine

Mysteries remain over Peru meteorite

Star distances reworked

Successful launch for ‘Dawn’ probe

Opportunity inside Victoria crater

Objects ‘weirder than black holes’

Space tether hits major snag

Insights into Magnetars by XMM-Newton

MOND fights back against dark matter

SOHO spies a periodic comet

Odd object blurs comets and asteroids

Orphan stars in long galaxy tail

Earth’s water brewed at home

Extragalactic radio burst puzzles

Mystery radio pulse from outer space

Space creates mutant super-bugs

Warp drive will kick-up serious radiation

Possible cave skylights on Mars

‘Starquake’ reveals powerful magnetic field

MRO insights on Mars’ water & climate

Radiation didn’t kill dinosaurs

Scores ill in Peru ‘meteor crash’

Peru links illness to meteorite

Trillions of Black Holes from Big Bang?

A warm South Pole? On Neptune!

Arecibo at 40 still an explorer

Neon to trace planet formation

Milky Way keeps a grip on neighbours

Palomar sees sharpest

Japan Moon orbiter launched

Dwarf galaxy is flat

Strange planet-mass object found

GRBs spring cosmic surprise

Dark Matter clues in oldest stars

Quantum threat to secret data?

Dark Matter& inflation: one and the same?

Warming opens Northwest Passage

Gerbil into space

Reality by numbers

Google sponsors $30 mill lunar landing

Warm Dark Matter explains giant Black Holes

Rover starts into Victoria crater

Japan launches first lunar probe

Planet survives searing Red Giant

Wobbling poles explain Martian ice

Missing dwarf galaxies found?

Can string theory accommodate inflation?

Galaxy’s Black Hole ate baby brother?

Must-see pictures of Iapetus

‘Heretical Cosmologist’ ditches Big Bang

A MAGIC test for string theory?

Space pile-up ‘condemned dinosaurs’

‘Lego-block’ galaxies found in early Universe

Saturn’s spin hints at quick birth

Proton fails just after lift-off

Hubble loses another gyro

Elusive waves in Sun’s corona

‘Clearest’ images taken of space

Biggest digital camera joins asteroid search

The Sun is making waves