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New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, suggests that our sun and planets are surrounded by a giant, rounded system of magnetic field from the sun - calling into question the alternate view of the solar magnetic fields trailing behind the sun in the shape of a long comet tail.
Apr 24th, 2017
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A team of scientists has found new ways to detect a bare or naked singularity, the most extreme object in the universe.
Apr 20th, 2017
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Lensed supernova will give insight into the expansion of the universe.
Apr 20th, 2017
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Transiting rocky super-Earth found in habitable zone of quiet red dwarf star.
Apr 19th, 2017
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Violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans.
Apr 19th, 2017
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Researchers have developed a new methodology to calculate theoretical spectra for atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields exhibited by up to one-fifth of white dwarfs.
Apr 19th, 2017
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Astronomers find missing mass in the hydrogen halo that surrounds our home galaxy.
Apr 18th, 2017
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New research could shed light on the distribution of one of the most mysterious substances in the universe.
Apr 17th, 2017
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Planetary mission offers up-close view of Cosmic Optical Background.
Apr 11th, 2017
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Massive gouts of x-rays may arise from an unusual conjunction between a neutron star and the disk of matter around its companion.
Apr 7th, 2017
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Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth planet GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.
Apr 6th, 2017
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Astrophysicists have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.
Apr 5th, 2017
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IRAM's 30-metre dish is part of the Event Horizon Telescope which is looking into the centre of the Milky Way.
Mar 31st, 2017
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A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but it may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
Mar 31st, 2017
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Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all.
Mar 31st, 2017
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For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the 'wrong' way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space.
Mar 30th, 2017
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A fierce wind obscures x-rays emitted from a disk of matter around a black hole.
Mar 24th, 2017
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Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.
Mar 23rd, 2017
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