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Archived News Items — 2007

April 2007

 

NASA denies snubbing Russian Moon offer

Dark mappers take Gamma-ray view

Black Holes may fill Universe with life

Black Holes portals to other universes?

Physicist takes on Newton & Einstein

Next solar cycle ‘will start in March 08’

Solar system climate catastrophes

Impact of clouds on polar regions

New ‘super-Earth’ found in space

First habitable Earth-like planet found

Meet the neighbours

45 years of UK space exploration

Extreme star-birth in Carina Nebula

‘Kryptonite’ discovered in mine

Intergalactic polluters by XMM-Newton

Spacecraft return Sun 3-D pictures

UK ‘needs NASA-like agency’

Herschel & SPIRE get ready

Death of sterile neutrino raises new spectre

‘Pipe organ’ plays above the Sun

Dwarf stars emit powerful pulse

Earthquakes linked to volcanic activity

Cluster sees ‘tsunamis in space’

Planetary danger zones mapped out

Casting a shadow

UK tests Moon lander technology

Tiny fossils reveal ice history

Fossilised trees mystery solved

Space shield to block radiation

Uranus’ rings seen in 1700s?

‘Smart dust’ to explore planets

Einstein was right, probe shows

Mars probe failure ‘human error’

Stardust find ‘not just rocket fuel’

Cosmic ‘axis of evil’ a concern?

Lowest mass white dwarf found

Brown dwarves new stellar lighthouses

Astronomers ‘zoom in’ on black hole

Satellite to study ‘night shining’ clouds

Exquisite ‘Red Square’ nebula symmetry

Galaxy’s spiral arms explained?

Future scopes could detect Earth twin

Sterile neutrinos laid to rest, for now

Water detected on distant planet

It isn’t easy, being green

The grandest asteroid tour?

Internet reaches out to final frontier

Space mission could find exiled planets

‘Wunderkind’ stars may be old pros

Barred spiral beauty by Hubble

Star’s odd explosion anti-matter trigger?

Star burps, then explodes

Binary asteroid is twin rubble pile

GPS impacted by solar radio burst

China unveils Moon Rover

Earth’s mag. field grew strong when young

South Pole Telescope (SPT) readied

Hubble images spiral galaxy

Electrons caught tunnelling out

Dust blamed for Mars warming

Seeking the origins of cosmic rays

Superconductor test for Dark Energy?

Serious setback for Large Hadron Collider

Equinox challenge to Newton’s Law

Venus Express tracking turbulence

Dead star snacking on asteroid

 

May 2007

 

Telescope boost to UK astronomy

Is dark energy fattening the Sun?

Spitzer gives observers depth perception

Chandra sees awesome upheaval

Planet hunters spy distant haul

FUSE catches collision of Titans

Why no evicted Black Holes?

Spitzer nets giant galaxy cluster

SOHO helps solar storm forecast

Heftier stars more likely to host planets

Forming the Solar System

Unexpected multi-planet system found

Merging stars may explain mystery

GRBs active longer than thought

Did a comet wipe-out prehistoric Americans?

A new class of cosmic explosions

Chemistry of neutron stars modelled

Greenwich Planetarium opens

Analysis of asteroid risk ‘deeply flawed’

How to catch speeding Black Holes

Cassini CAT scan maps clumps in rings

Uranus moons caught overtaking

Only 3 trillion years to go ...

Mars Rover unearths surprise

Spitzer sees baby stars hatching

Cluster spacecraft get a shock

Solar wind slowed by Helium

Merging galaxies observed by Keck

Hubble spots ring of Dark Matter

Ring of Dark Matter surrounds collision

Black Hole spins as fast as it can

Enceladus plumes from frictional heating

Technique for weighing Black Holes

Vast areas of Antarctica melted recently

Extreme summer warming in the future

X-rays to investigate exploding stars

Alien world made of hot ice

Star born soon after Big Bang

Titan insights into life origins?

When Milky Way and Andromeda collide ...

Dwarf galaxies more massive than thought

Collision reveals missing mass

Canadians weigh less

A tale of two exo-planets

First map of exo-planet

Alien universes all around us?

New videos of Venus’ double vortex

Hottest exo-planet yet

Storms power Saturn’s jet stream

Wildfire blazes near L.A. Observatory

Moore blames women for ‘banal’ TV

Orbital Express rejoins autonomously

Star dies in brightest supernova

Brightest supernova ever seen

Cold fusion hot news again?

Earth radar says Mercury core molten

End of 30-year quest for solar ripples?

Galileo system ‘in deep crisis’

ARIANE 5 powers to record

Molten core explains Mercury’s mag field?

COROT spots its first new planet

Planet hunters on brink of Earth-size prize

Power station harnesses Sun’s rays

Mars evidence of ancient volcanic explosion

Spitzer finds hidden stars

Astronaut Wally Schirra dies

New super-massive planet discovered

Snowflakes promise faster chips

‘Up to half’ of Mars may have ice

Star Cluster’s triple boom puzzle

Hubble finds stellar ‘baby booms’

The Sombrero Galaxy

New look at Jupiter system

In pictures: New views of Jupiter

‘Horizons’ returns Jupiter images

 

June 2007

 

The flexi-laws of physics

Dying star generates the stuff of life

Moon ‘hot cloud’ theory gets boost

Mars Rover ready for descent into crater

Jets from neutron star rival black hole

SWIFT sees double supernova

Team makes Tunguska crater claim

Weather observed on a star

Calendar question over star disk

CERN LHC schedule slips

Moon lasers could reveal new physics

Echinacea ‘can prevent a cold’

Atlantis returns (video)

Exotic cause of ‘Pioneer anomaly’ in doubt

Look to Quark Stars for a fifth dimension

Volunteers sought for Mars test

SDSS finds a ‘cosmic horseshoe’

Liquid mirror to see back in time

Liquid mirror could be used on Moon

Double explosion signals star death

Two more Saturn moons active

Dark galaxy continues to puzzle

So long Venus; onward to Mercury

Step towards a quantum computer

Pluto status suffers another blow

Eris 27% heftier than Pluto

Do black holes really exist?

Asteroid images help prepare for visit

Pristine galaxy heading our way

Eta Carinae: new view of doomed star

Plant life on extra-solar planets

Scramjet hits Mach 10

MACHO matter running out of hiding places

OGLEing a MACHO

Jets of matter clocked near light-speed

Signal hints at Titan subsurface ocean

LHC delayed again

Mars Rover finds ‘puddles’ ?

New support for ocean once on Mars

Distance record for quantum comms.

Star Duo biggest yet

Overgrown planet?

New way to centre of Earth

Hot Earth-Neptune hybrid

Quasar is the oldest yet

Space Station deploys new solar wings

Landslides old & new on Mars

Brown dwarf delights astronomers

Secrets of Altair probed