Astronomy/Cosmology
If you were looking up at the Moon on March 17, 2013 at 03:50:55 UTC, you might have seen one of the brightest “lunar flashes” ever witnessed. And it...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a...
Online volunteers are being asked to search for 'space warps', very rare massive galaxies that bend light around them so that they act rather like...
An international team of physicists has found the first direct evidence of pear shaped nuclei in exotic atoms.
The findings could advance the...
A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have formed as a result of the Red...
The maths underpinning Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain how the universe may be 'designed' to make black holes.
New Oxford...
A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole.
When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses...
A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified...
A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and...
In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University...
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