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Archived News Items — 2008

January 2008

 

Dark Energy makes galaxies keep their distance

Rhythm in Saturn’s rings

Mercury’s volcanic past revealed

Surprises found during Mercury fly-by

Gravity: Breaking the law?

Space weather science rues cut

Mystery image of ‘life on Mars’

Supernovae may reveal black holes

Keck catches a nova surprise

Cosmic suburbia a better star breeding ground

Hunt for the un-universe

Comet’s bits resemble asteroid material

Look for a watery twinkle

Skies dim for British astronomers

Largest encounter for 22 years

First glimpse of SpaceShipTwo

Universe’s fireworks fizzled-out at mid-life

Supernova echoes a window on the past

Hubble captures Jupiter’s giant storms

Circumstellar dust in ‘the Moth’

Milky Way’s antimatter linked to Black Holes

Did the Higgs puff up the Universe?

Lava flows on Mercury?

Tremors keep microbes alive

Cosmic strings seen in Big Bang afterglow?

Monster chaos in Black Holes

Teleportation: fact or fiction?

Corkscrew cups to keep space drinks flowing?

Milky Way’s Black Hole probed closer

Neutrino detector might spot Dark Matter

Mercury’s unseen side revealed

Mercury’s previously unseen side

Cosmic dust disk to force rethink

Peanut-shaped comet likely formed in collision

Hubble peers into dark matter web

NASA probe visits Mercury (video)

Messenger primed for Mercury pass

Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way

Result of colliding proto-planets?

Rapid spin for giant Black Holes

Mars dodges a bullet

Ball-shaped Universe bounces back

Black Hole light echo predicted

Mystery of Planet-X

Origin of antimatter cloud discovered

Thin galaxies harbour big secret

Rogue Holes prowl Milky Way

Hubble discovers double Einstein Ring

Planets form twice for old stars

Milky Way ‘ancestors’ discovered

Huge Black Hole tips the scales

Biggest Black Hole discovered

Wherever a planet can form, it will

Fix will give Hubble major boost

‘Blue blobs’ are orphaned clusters

Mystery X-ray source in nearby galaxy

Harbinger of new solar cycle!

Telescope spies newborn planet

Collision could explain exo-world’s heat

Anti-matter may leak from Black Holes

Spiral arms point in opposite directions

Meteors’ origin traced to 1490

Disk red dust may harbour life precursors

Unlocking Mercury’s secrets

Funding for next-generation scope

String Theory may predict Universe after all

Hot cyclones at both ends of Saturn

UK push for Space Station modules

Planet found round young star

Solar System history in grains of comet dust

White dwarf pulses like a pulsar

2009 is Year of Astronomy

 

February 2008

 

Mars spacecraft prepare for new kid

Potential landing site probed by radar

Intriguing phenomenon on Enceladus

Spitzer perfect for spotting diamonds

Hi-energy holes reveal unseen rings

Ulysses solar mission coming to an end

Debris from destroyed spy satellite

Mingling moons share dark past

Many nearby stars may form rocky planets

Lunar Eclipse photos

Astronomers given Gemini reprieve

Astronauts begin Columbus activation

Organic molecules found on alien world

Stepping up the search for ET

Echoes give accurate Cepheid distance

Star eats star and builds planets

Extreme eclipse chasing

Cosmic finger taps our shoulder

A.U. may need to be redefined

Lift-off for Columbus science lab

Galaxy without Dark Matter puzzles

Telescope to test Antarctica’s ‘best sky’

Black holes could expose dimensions

Deep Impact search for exo-planets

Saturn has a ‘giant sponge’

Giant particle accelerator in the sky

New light on Dark Energy

Bizarre scar on Mercury’s surface

The long quest for Life on Mars

 

March 2008

 

Unlocking Stonehenge’s secrets

‘Mountains’ on stars trigger grav. waves?

Mercury’s rolling past

Nearby star has Earth-like planets?

Organics & water near forming planets

Cities dim lights for environment

NMM announces £20M donation

Tycoon’s £20M donation to Museum

Ofer gives record £20m to NMM

Odyssey’s clues guide Mars search for life

Space truck ready for rehearsals

LHC ‘not a threat’ to Earth

Biggest UK space impact found

Does Moon have volcanic surprise?

Space elevators face wobble problem

Movie of giant Saturn storm

Nanomaterial turns radiation into electricity

Could ‘bubble universes’ threaten us?

Space Shuttle lands safely

Image may reveal embryonic world

Enceladus surprisingly comet-like

NASA’s science chief resigns

Next Bond villain’s lair

NASA reverses budget cuts

Boomerang in space — what happens?

Conserve Moon for radio-astronomy

Local exoplanet sizzling hot

Most powerful naked-eye blast

Star’s huge explosion sets record

Titan may have hidden ocean

What’s up with Titan’s spin?

Sun’s corona in 3-D

Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90

Obituary:  Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke — Predictions

Mars is covered in table salt

Flippin particle explains anti-matter?

Soliton wave found in space

Google Sky now on the web

Dark Matter theories try to explain radiation

A whiff of water from the Moon

What happened to Mars?

Remnants of destroyed dwarf planet?

Genesis finding

Methane found on distant world

Meteorite swarm may explain Peru mystery

First Light for Large Binocular Telescope LBT

Hubble servicing date threatened

Dextre comes to life

A new day in precision cosmology

Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri?

Black Holes could send asteroids our way

Cassini to dive into Enceladus water-plume

Last confessions of a dying star

Is Dark Matter mystery about to be solved?

Avalanches on Mars

Galaxy ablaze with star-birth

Liquid water found on Mars?  Not yet