15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
... of the comet is covered by dust and debris ranging from millimetre to metre sizes, panoramic images show layered walls of harder-looking material. The science teams are now studying their data to see if they have sampled...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... of this. It takes a little bit of extra time, but it's safer and cheaper, and that's important. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us@Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
... of invisible dark matter. In the standard model of the evolution of the universe, structures such as the cosmic Great Wall, a gigantic filamentary structure spanning over 500 million light-years is thought to form along and follow web...
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
... in some ways to the Giants Causeway on Mars. Underground we can see these same polygons on the ceiling and walls of tunnels,” said Edwards. “Salty environments are typically hostile to life but certain types of micro-organisms can...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... been considered safe under regular operating conditions – before allowing Rosetta to crash. "We hope to look at structures on the walls of the pits which may date to the time of the comet's formation”, said Philae scientist Jean-Pierre...
07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
... are low density regions and are produced by the streaming of matter out towards the higher density walls and filaments. They are also considered smaller versions of the bigger cosmic web in that have their...
