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Astronomy News

New structures in the Sun's atmosphere
Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:03pm

Which could help scientists further understand the behaviour of the solar wind

Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:35pm

By offering reduced price observing equipment to schools

Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:20pm

A celebration of space science's contribution to a better world

NAM - Coverage of the conference and the science stories being discussed there.
Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:38pm

Coverage of the conference and the science stories being discussed there

Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:22pm

Revealing startling new information about the planet's topography, polar regions and core structure

Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:18pm

Incredible new infrared data will be made available to astronomers

Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:47pm

NASA footage captures meandering jet stream for the first time

Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:58am

Celebrate 55 years of The Sky at Night by observing 55 objects in April

Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:57pm

The method paves the way for life to be detected on exoplanets

Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:29pm

Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth

Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:28pm

The sample of space rock is the largest Tissint fragment recovered

Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:29pm

The footage was captured by one of NASA's GRAIL probes

Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:54pm

National Space Centre's planetarium has a new name and a new show hosted by Patrick Moore

Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:53am

Find may shed more light on nature of dark matter

Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:24pm

Tragedy struck the Apollo programme early on – but vital lessons were learned

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