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Is anything tough enough to survive on Mars?

Scientists recently took a step toward answering a question for the ages: Is there life on Mars? Answer: they can't rule it out.

March 2, 2017 Read more

Ultracool dwarf and the seven planets

Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system.

February 22, 2017 Read more

Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars

Astronomers found the most precise way ever to measure the rate at which stars form in galaxies using their radio emission at 1-10 Gigahertz frequency range.

February 21, 2017 Read more

Mapping the family tree of stars

Astronomers are borrowing principles applied in biology and archaeology to build a family tree of the stars in the galaxy. By studying chemical signatures found in the stars, they are piecing together these evolutionary trees looking at how the stars formed and how they are connected to each other.

February 20, 2017 Read more

Examining exploding stars through the atomic nucleus

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

February 20, 2017 Read more

Research team finds radial acceleration relation in all common types of galaxies

The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies.

February 17, 2017 Read more

Researchers pinpoint watery past on Mars

Researchers have discovered a patch of land in an ancient valley on Mars that appears to have been flooded by water in the not-too-distant past. In doing so, they have pinpointed a prime target to begin searching for past life forms on the Red Planet.

February 15, 2017 Read more

The heart of a far-off star beats for its planet

For the first time, astronomers have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet.

February 14, 2017 Read more

Self-made stars

Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma jets and bubbles.

February 14, 2017 Read more

Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public

Users can search database of 1,600 stars to find signs of new exoplanets.

February 13, 2017 Read more

Ancient signals from the early universe

For the first time, theoretical physicists have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

February 10, 2017 Read more

A bridge of stars connects two dwarf galaxies

The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years, according to an international team of astronomers.

February 9, 2017 Read more

A black hole feeding frenzy that breaks records

A giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to new research. This black hole meal is more than 10 times longer than any other previous episode of a star's death.

February 7, 2017 Read more

Tail of stray black hole hiding in the Milky Way

By analyzing the gas motion of an extraordinarily fast-moving cosmic cloud in a corner of the Milky Way, astronomers found hints of a wandering black hole hidden in the cloud. This result marks the beginning of the search for quiet black holes; millions of such objects are expected to be floating in the Milky Way although only dozens have been found to date.

February 2, 2017 Read more

Full braking at Alpha Centauri (w/video)

Space travel visionaries solve the problem of interstellar slowdown at our stellar neighbour.

February 1, 2017 Read more

Tracing the cosmic web with star-forming galaxies in the distant universe

A research group has revealed a picture of the increasing fraction of massive star-forming galaxies in the distant universe. Massive star-forming galaxies in the distant universe, about 5 billion years ago, trace large-scale structure in the universe. In the nearby universe, about 3 billion years ago, massive star-forming galaxies are not apparent.

January 31, 2017 Read more

Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe

A new study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram.

January 30, 2017 Read more

New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms

A new tool called EEGGL - short for the Eruptive Event Generator (Gibson and Low) and pronounced 'eagle' - helps map out the paths of these magnetically structured clouds, called coronal mass ejections or CMEs, before they reach Earth.

January 26, 2017 Read more