Hubble's 'eyes' into the museum
After 15 years of service in space, two devices WFPC-2 and Costar were removed by astronauts in May 2009.
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After 15 years of service in space, two devices WFPC-2 and Costar were removed by astronauts in May 2009.
Russia's Proton-M missile left the launch platform yesterday and brought Europe's Eutelsat W7 communications satellite into orbit.
US scientists have published a new map of Mars that shows there was a large ocean in the north and valleys lying around the planet's equator.
Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis on November 23 have completed the third outing walk.
A shooting star has exploded brilliantly in the sky in South Africa, but experts have not been able to determine where this cosmic visitor landed.
American scientists affirmed that the trace found in the ALH84001 specimen is microscopic fossil, proving that life can travel across the universe on meteorites.
According to foreign news, space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth on November 27, ending its mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
A galaxy that humans cannot see collides with the Milky Way but it retains its shape.
At 14:16 (Hanoi time) on December 1, the spacecraft
Astronomers have discovered a star with a surface temperature of 200,000 degrees Celsius in the Milky Way.
With plans to bring thousands of tourists to space, yesterday, British billionaire Richard Branson officially announced SpaceShipTwo spacecraft before the press.
The Adler, Chicago (USA) astronomical department recently published the latest and most complete picture of a galaxy of 800,000 images of different sizes.
For the first time in history, physicists may have discovered an element of dark matter, a form of matter that accounts for 90% of the mass in the universe.
International astronomers have discovered three new planets around a sun-like star, and hope to find planets of life in a few years.
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope lets you see stars close to the solar system, which were previously invisible to us.