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Posted on Jul 24, 2016 in Uncategorized NASA’s Kepler Mission found stars that resemble our sun about a few million years after its birth. The Kepler data showed many examples...

Posted on Jul 5, 2016 Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor, which appears...

Posted on Jul 1, 2016 “Both the planet we live on and the star we orbit are made up of ‘normal’ matter,” said Tanmay Vachaspati a theoretical physicist at Arizona...

Posted on Jul 10, 2016 in Uncategorized Where did the two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, come from? For a long time, their shape suggested that they were...

Posted on Jul 30, 2016 In February 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter-facing hemisphere of Io, the volcanic epi-center of our solar system, occurred with an...

Posted on Jul 19, 2016 in Uncategorized Is the structure the result of an ancient collision of the Milky Way with another galaxy? Previous computer models, observations of other galaxies,...

Posted on Jul 25, 2016 in Uncategorized Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona captured the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet, a young, gaseous...

Posted on Jun 10, 2016 in Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Science “If the duplications and subsequent mutations of this gene during evolution didn’t happen, then life would be completely different today,”...

Posted on Jun 30, 2016 Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the...

Posted on Jun 18, 2016 in Uncategorized Hunting for extraterrestrials means sending out signals like television broadcasts, for example. As Earth’s electronic ambassador, TV and radio signals are sent into...

Posted on May 27, 2016 in Uncategorized Radar measurements of Mars’ polar ice caps reveal that the mostly dry, dusty planet is emerging from an ice age, following multiple rounds...

Posted on May 1, 2016 in Uncategorized Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors, realigning scientific notions of the origins of early modern...

Posted on May 21, 2016 A big advantage to our civilization arising early in the evolution of the universe is our being able to use powerful telescopes like Hubble to...

Posted on May 2, 2016 in Evolution, Science The halt in the increase in the complexity of life happened more than 3,000 million years ago, before the separate evolution of...

Posted on May 15, 2016 A team of Harvard physicists investigating whether the newly proposed form of dark matter may play a role in one of the largest mysteries in...

Posted on May 10, 2016 in Astrobiology, Extraterrestrial Life, Science “Life could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic. In...

Posted on May 6, 2016 in Uncategorized “This black hole, though individually massive, accounts for less than one percent of the mass of all the stars in the galaxy,” notes...

Posted on May 3, 2016 “The evidence points to Planet Nine existing, but we can’t explain for certain how it was produced,” says CfA astronomer Gongjie Li, lead author on...

Posted on Apr 29, 2016 in Uncategorized Nearly 10 billion years ago in a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418, a dramatic explosion occurred. Light from this blast began arriving at...

Posted on Apr 12, 2016 in Uncategorized The Carnegie Institute didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from...

Posted on Apr 4, 2016 in Uncategorized   "A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," observed Rosanne DiStefano of the...

Posted on Mar 21, 2016 in Uncategorized “We thought that Kepler could also stare at galaxies, and we would wait for something to explode,” said University of Notre Dame astrophysicist...

Posted on Mar 7, 2016 Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury’s surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a body on...

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Uncategorized New and unparalleled research shows that there is a particle accelerator in the center of our galaxy that is capable of accelerating protons...

Posted on Mar 30, 2016 The SETI Institute is putting old wine in a new bottle, repackaging a decade-old suggestion that planetary systems orbiting red dwarfs — dim, long-lived stars...

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 in Uncategorized The sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried in the Antarctic ice may be hidden...

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 in Astronomy, Science At the most distant reaches of the observable universe exists one of the great enigmas of Big Bang cosmology: the cosmic microwave...

Posted on Feb 10, 2016 In September 2014, a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii and Hélène Courtois of the University of Lyon determined...

Posted on Feb 29, 2016 An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes identified the distant location of a fast radio burst (FRB) for the...

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 in Uncategorized Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors, realigning scientific notions of the origins of early modern...

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope, is located at 5100 metres above sea level on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama region. The ATLASGAL survey...

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 in Uncategorized Two researchers  have concluded that the idea that life has or could arise in an Earth-like environment has only a small amount of...

Posted on Jan 15, 2016 Astronomers have been viewing a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns....

Posted on Jan 4, 2016 How can life originate from a lifeless chemical soup? This question has puzzled scientists since Darwin's 'Origin of species'. University of Groningen chemistry professor Sijbren...

Posted on Jan 6, 2016 "A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," says Rosanne DiStefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

Posted on Jan 20, 2016 “I know, I know,” writes Caltech’s Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy and author of the mikebrownsplanets.com blog, who specializes...

Posted on Dec 15, 2015 in Uncategorized Galaxy clusters are massive congregations of galaxies that host huge reservoirs of hot gas — the temperatures are so high that X-rays are...

Posted on Dec 1, 2015 When certain massive stars use up all of their fuel and collapse onto their cores, explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than the average supernova...

Posted on Dec 18, 2015 in Uncategorized Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of...

Posted on Nov 22, 2015 in Uncategorized Data from the Planck telescope have confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt a theory of the quantum origin of structure in the Universe. What...

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have calculated that the meson f0(1710) could be a very special particle – the long-sought-after glueball, a particle composed of...

Posted on Oct 19, 2015 The black hole at the center of the super giant elliptical galaxy M87 shown above in cluster Virgo fifty million light-years away, is the most...

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 in Uncategorized A planet's magnetic field emanates from its core and is thought to deflect the charged particles of the stellar wind, protecting the atmosphere...

Posted on Sep 16, 2015 in Uncategorized Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth collapsed in spectacular and unprecedented fashion, as more than 96 percent of marine species and...

Posted on Sep 22, 2015 Scientists working with ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring, have made precise measurements of particle...

Posted on Aug 1, 2015 in Uncategorized Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck. Paul Butler remembers being dead tired. The two men had...

Posted on Jul 31, 2015 in Uncategorized Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS) have created a new map of the Milky Way that provides the first clear evidence...

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 "We are witnessing a single recent accretion event where a medium-sized galaxy fell through the center of Messier 87, and as a consequence of the...

Posted on Jul 19, 2015 in Uncategorized By using the best available data to monitor galactic traffic in our neighborhood, Noam Libeskind from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)...