Gravity Probe B comes last in NASA review
Panel recommendation is to cut funding of mission by September
Auroral light is polarized after all
New measurements of the Northern Lights overturn 50 years of conventional wisdom
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John Wheeler: 1911-2008
Giant of physics who gave black holes their name dies at 96
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Astronomers pinpoint source of slow solar wind
Colliding magnetic fields believed to eject particles from the Sun
NASA science director quits
Alan Stern gives no reason for leaving role
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Alpha Centauri might harbour an ‘Earth’
Astronomers set to begin five-year search
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Doubt cast on liquid water on Mars
2006 images were probably of a small landslide, say researchers
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A brief history of Hawking
Michael Banks reviews the TV documentary Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe
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Earth is doomed (in 5 billion years)
A red-giant Sun will swallow-up Earth
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Siblings of Jupiter and Saturn discovered
Astronomers find "scaled-down" version of our solar system
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