"We have no idea how long a technological civilization like our own can last," says University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank. "Is...
Friday, 30 January 2015
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Image of the Day: "Massive Bubbles" --New 3-D Probe Inside an Iconic Milky Way Supernova
This composite image shows two perspectives of a three-dimensional reconstruction of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This new 3-D map...
A Quantum View of Space (Yet Another Win for Einstein!)
Ever since Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Dwarf Planet Ceres --"A Game Changer in the Solar System"
"Ceres is a 'planet' that you've probably never heard of,” said Robert Mase, Dawn project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Enormous ExoPlanet Ring System 200 Xs Size of Saturn's Found
Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that they...
Solar System Formed at the Dawn of the Milky Way Discovered with 5 Earthlike Planets
"There are far-reaching implications for this discovery," said Tiago Campante, from the University of Birmingham's School of Physics and...
Monday, 26 January 2015
The Dark-Matter Mystery Deepens --"Physicists Trying to Decode Hidden Message"
Our Milky Way galaxy is still assembling itself from dark matter and normal matter. Scientists have long known that dark matter is out there,...
Friday, 23 January 2015
Three Extreme Objects Spotted in Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy
In the latest discovery, a multinational team of astronomers working on the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes found three...
The Universe is a 'Complexity Machine' --"Intelligent Life and Technology May be Common in the Cosmos"
Recent developments in science are beginning to suggest that the universe naturally produces complexity. The emergence of life in general...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Hidden Magnetic Messages in Meteorites from Early Solar System Uncovered
Geologists from the University of Cambridge uncover hidden magnetic messages from the early solar system in meteorites measured at BESSY...
"Dark Matter May be 'Another Dimension' --Or Even a Major Galactic Transport System"
"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesise...
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Supernova's 25-Million-Year-Old Dust on Ocean Floor --Contradicts Current Theories
Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars...
Monday, 19 January 2015
Eco-Alert: "Human Civilization has Crossed Four of Nine Planetary Boundaries"
"It might be possible for human civilization to live outside Holocene conditions, but it's never been tried before," says Steve Carpenter,...
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Getting Closer? Newest Kepler-2 Findings "Reveal Earthlike Planets Common in Milky Way Galaxy"
"Most planets we have found to date are scorched. This system is the closest star with lukewarm transiting planets," Petigura said. "There...
Saturday, 17 January 2015
The Spiral Galaxy Enigma --"Grand-Design Galaxies Simply Didn't Exist at Such an Early time in the History of the Universe" (Weekend Feature)
In July of 2012, astronomers observed a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed while...
Friday, 16 January 2015
"The Unexplored Planet" --NASA Spacecraft Begins 1st stage of Epic Pluto Probe
“NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind’s first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system,” said...
Long-Lost Mars Express Lander Found
The UK-led Beagle 2 Mars Lander, thought lost on Mars since 2003, has been found partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending...
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