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CoRoT, standing for Convection Rotation and planetary Transits, was a significant advancement for the ESA in the search for extrasolar...

NASA’s Deep Impact mission was the space-related highlight of the year 2005 because, for the first time, a probe smashed into a comet to...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, formerly known as the Advanced X-ray Astronomical Facility (AXAF), was launched by Space Shuttle Columbia...

The Venus Express space probe reused parts of the design from the Mars Express and Rosetta spacecraft and was the first mission of the...

The Stardust Mission was unique because for the first time, a space probe has collected dust particles from a comet and brought these...

The New Horizons mission, launched on January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket, journeyed to Pluto, once considered the last planet in...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is America's response to the European Mars Express space probe, boasting impressive technical...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and is one of the most significant telescopes in the...

NASA’s Dawn Mission was a mission to examine the asteroids Ceres and Vesta. In fact, the mission was canceled in March 2006, but a short...

A white dwarf is formed when a star with a maximum of 1.4 solar masses dies. It consists of the hot core of the star, which has...

Mars is the last terrestrial planet and the fourth planet in our solar system. It is the most likely target for a manned space mission....

Due to the quantum mechanical degeneracy of electrons, brown dwarfs are compact astronomical objects of at least 13 Jupiter masses, with...

Black holes are among the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. Their gravitational forces are so strong that not even...

The Kepler Space Telescope from NASA was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The telescope is named after the...

The European Huygens probe, which flew to the planet Saturn on board the American Cassini probe for 7 years and entered the atmosphere of...

1. No one else found more extrasolar planets than you and your colleague R. Paul Butlar, but the first extrasolar planet around a...

1. Mr. Friedman, you are a physicist with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in nuclear physics from the University of Chicago, and have...