Fastest supercomputer overtaken by Roadrunner
US machine will be used initially to model cosmology, astrophysics and the climate
Phoenix reveals Martian permafrost
NASA spacecraft touches down on the red planet after nine-month journey
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Gravity Probe B comes last in NASA review
Panel recommendation is to cut funding of mission by September
Looking for ET’s neutrino beam
Might extraterrestrials be communicating via neutrinos?
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Weiler to remain NASA science chief
Interim chief accepts permanent position and plans to continue hard-nosed approach to project overruns
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Auroral light is polarized after all
New measurements of the Northern Lights overturn 50 years of conventional wisdom
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Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency
MPs call for major shake-up at the Science and Technology Facilities Council
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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
Global spending on space increases
Report shows that last year’s spending up 11% on 2006
