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Based on the latest evidence and theories our galaxy could be a huge wormhole (or space-time tunnel) and, if that were true, it would be 'stable and navigable'. This is the hypothesis put forward in a new study.
Jan 21st, 2015
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Planetary scientists may find a thick ice crust with an ocean underneath when the NASA Dawn spacecraft arrives at Ceres in March 2015.
Jan 20th, 2015
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Extraterrestrial dust from the depths of the ocean could change the way we understand supernovae. Scientists have found the amount of plutonium in the dust is much lower than expected.
Jan 20th, 2015
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Astronomers observe polarised dust emission of two dark clouds in the Milky Way.
Jan 20th, 2015
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A short, sharp flash of radio waves from a mysterious source up to 5.5 billion light years from Earth has been detected by the Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia.
Jan 19th, 2015
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Scientists from around the world have joined forces to lay the foundations for an experiment of truly astronomical proportions: putting together the biggest map of the Universe ever made. The experiment will combine signals from hundreds of radio dishes to make cosmic atlas.
Jan 19th, 2015
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On Christmas Day 2003, a kitchen table-size lander descended onto the surface of the red planet on a mission to study the Martian surface and potential clues for life. The probe never called home, and no one knew what happened to it. Until now.
Jan 16th, 2015
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The theory that an Anthropic Principle guided the physics and evolution of the universe was initially proposed by Brandon Carter; this theory was later debated by Cambridge scholar Stephen Hawking and a widening web of physicists around the world. German scholar Ulf-G Meissner adds to a series of discoveries that support this Anthropic Principle.
Jan 16th, 2015
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The catalogues of celestial objects contain a galaxy cluster called 'Abell 4067'. Recent observations with the XMM-Newton space observatory, however, reveal evidence that this object actually constitutes of the merger of two clusters. The smaller system appears to be losing the greater part of its gas.
Jan 16th, 2015
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Astronomers have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars - extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns - regulate the formation of stars and the build-up of the most massive galaxies.
Jan 16th, 2015
Read moreA study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought.
Jan 15th, 2015
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The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescope at the Paranal Observatory, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, has achieved 'first light'.
Jan 15th, 2015
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New study finds meteorites were byproducts of planetary formation, not building blocks.
Jan 14th, 2015
Read moreUniversity of Warwick scientists have begun searching for planets after the unveiling of twelve robotically controlled telescopes.
Jan 14th, 2015
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If you sweep a laser pointer across the Moon fast enough, you can create spots that actually move faster than light. Anyone can do it.
Jan 9th, 2015
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By analyzing the light of hundreds of thousands of celestial objects, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a unique map of enigmatic molecules in our galaxy that are responsible for puzzling features in the light from stars.
Jan 9th, 2015
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In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star - just before it vanished from view.
Jan 8th, 2015
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An international consortium has published in a single article a compendium of data obtained after the simultaneous research of three supernovas and of their corresponding Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB). The research enabled contrasting statistically that the supernovas associated with GRB emit greater quantities of nickel compared to those not linked to GRB.
Jan 8th, 2015
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