A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Monday, 21 July 2014
Dwarf Galaxies "Challenge Our Understanding of How the Universe Works"
"Early in 2013 we announced our startling discovery that half of the dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy are orbiting it...
"Signs of Alien Life" --Viewing Earth from an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft
From afar, Earth-like worlds appear as tiny points of light, making it hard to imagine ever finding out much about them. The best we can...
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
"Explosive Microbial Growth Caused Earth's Greatest Extinction Event" --The Great Dying (Today's Most Popular)
The end-Permian (or PT) extinction event occurred 252 million years ago. It is often called the Great Dying because around 90 percent of marine...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
“Origin of Life is Not the Same as the Origin of a Biosphere" --A New Look at the Once Watery Worlds of Venus and Mars
The oldest signs of life on Earth date to about 3.5 billion years ago. But when did our planet transition from having organisms to having...
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Something is Amiss with Light in the Universe --"Photons May Be Coming from Some Exotic Unknown Source"
The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium, which can be used as a precise "light...
Closing in On Gravitational Waves --"Will Be a Clear Message About How the Universe is Put Together"
Many large heavenly bodies and events in the universe, such as the birth and death of stars, generate energy in different wavelengths...
Monday, 7 July 2014
Tiny Dwarf Galaxies Lit and Shaped the Early Universe
Shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was ionised: ordinary matter consisted of hydrogen with its positively charged protons stripped of...
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Solved! Puzzling Signals Thought Originating from Habitable-Zone Planets
Mysteries about controversial signals coming from a dwarf star considered to be a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
NASA's Cassini Probe Unlocks New Mysteries on Saturn's Titan
"Titan continues to prove itself as an endlessly fascinating world, and with our long-lived Cassini spacecraft, we're unlocking new...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
"The Higgs Paradox" --Quantum-Level Discovery Fails to Solve Large-Scale Cosmic Mysteries
The Higgs boson is a cornerstone of the Standard Model, a theory developed in the early 1970s to explain the five percent of the Universe...
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