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In 2010 scientists discovered four 'monster' sized stars, with the heaviest more than 300 times as massive as our Sun. Scientists have now found an explanation: the ultramassive stars were created from the merger of lighter stars in tight binary systems.
Aug 7th, 2012
Read moreNASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
Aug 6th, 2012
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Are we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA's $2.5 billion dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars' surface on Monday. NASA said it will find out if its Mars Science Laboratory and rover, Curiosity - designed to hunt for soil-based signatures of life and send back data to prepare for a future human mission - landed safely at 1:31 am Eastern time on Monday.
Aug 5th, 2012
Read moreA team of researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has found radiation from protons could further enhance a process that occurs during tumor progression. This information may help lead to better methods to protect astronauts from the harmful effects of radiation in space, as well as help cancer researchers on Earth better understand the effects of radiation treatment on the human body.
Aug 4th, 2012
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Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years, according to new data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Aug 3rd, 2012
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New research, led by Stella Kafka of the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States, identifies a star system, prior to explosion, which will possibly become a type Ia supernova.
Aug 3rd, 2012
Read moreNASA's Space Technology Program is turning science fiction into science fact. The program has selected 28 proposals for study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.
Aug 1st, 2012
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Around Earth, the processes accelerating electrons which hit the atmosphere and cause beautiful auroras are often initiated in thin current sheets. Similar processes, auroras and thin current sheets are found around other planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.
Aug 1st, 2012
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NASA scientists used software from Siemens to help create the new Mars rover Curiosity, which is currently on its way to Mars.
Jul 31st, 2012
Read moreAfter a journey of 245 days across 352 million miles, the moment of truth for the Mars Science Laboratory begins late in the evening of August 5 when the spacecraft roars into the Martian atmosphere, traveling at 13,200 miles an hour. The final seven minutes will determine the fate of the mission, and a perfect performance of the Lockheed Martin Space Systems aeroshell is absolutely vital to getting the Mars Curiosity Rover safely down on the sands of Mars.
Jul 26th, 2012
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The inspiration behind NASA scientist Maxim Markevitch's quest to build a highly specialized X-ray mirror using a never-before-tried technique comes from an unusual source: a roll of Scotch tape.
Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreLargest ever Cherenkov telescope sees first light.
Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreMax Planck scientists discover a young and energetic neutron star with unusually irregular rotation.
Jul 26th, 2012
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Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system.
Jul 26th, 2012
Read moreA giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real time.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreComets and asteroids preserve the building blocks of our Solar System and should help explain its origin. But there are unsolved puzzles. For example, how did icy comets obtain particles that formed at high temperatures, and how did these refractory particles acquire rims with different compositions? Carnegie's theoretical astrophysicist Alan Boss and cosmochemist Conel Alexander are the first to model the trajectories of such particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed the Solar System.
Jul 25th, 2012
Read moreCutting-edge Canadian space technology directed by Université de Montreal's Rene Doyon
Jul 25th, 2012
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is set to deliver the largest planetary rover ever flown onto the Red Planet?s surface early in the morning of 6 August.
Jul 25th, 2012
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