A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team...
Friday, 27 February 2015
The Mars "Methane Equals Life" Debate Rolls On...
The Curiosity robot confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere which may hint that life may have existed. An article published in Science confirms...
The Missing Massive Galaxies of the Early Universe --“They Were Hiding in Plain Sight”
One of the biggest mysteries in galaxy evolution is the fate of the compact massive galaxies that roamed the early Universe. “When our Universe...
Thursday, 26 February 2015
"Beyond Hubble" --A New 3-D View of the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe
The MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep Universe. After...
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Image of the Day: An Exploding Light Show in a Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
In this image, an expanding shell of debris called SNR 0519-69.0 is left behind after a massive star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud,...
Monday, 23 February 2015
"Close Encounter!" --The Rogue Star That Passed Through Our Solar System
Astronomers have identified the closest known flyby of a star to our solar system: A dim star that passed through the Oort Cloud 70,000 years...
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Ridley Scott's "The Martian" Coming this November --His Best Ever?
During a manned mission to Mars, NASA Astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, is presumed dead after a fierce sand storm and left stranded...
Thursday, 19 February 2015
"Mysterious Link" --Galaxy's Dark Matter Halo and Its Supermassive Black Hole
"There seems to be a mysterious link between the amount of dark matter a galaxy holds and the size of its central black hole, even though...
"Our Solar System's Milky-Way Orbit Through Dark Matter Impacts Life on Earth"
"We are fortunate enough to live on a planet that is ideal for the development of complex life," says New York University Biology Professor...
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
"Life on Earth Could Have Existed Even Before 3.2 Billion Years Ago"
"We'll never find any direct evidence of land scum one cell thick, but this might be giving us indirect evidence that the land was inhabited,"...
Supernova --Source of a Key Element in the Evolution of the Universe Found
A team of astronomers from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan observed Nova Delphini 2013 which occurred on August 14, 2013. Using...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
"Your Inner Jellyfish" --Origin of Electrical Communication in Human Brain Traced Back 600 Million Years
New research shows that a burst of evolutionary innovation in the genes responsible for electrical communication among nerve cells in our...
Monday, 16 February 2015
"The Pale Blue Dot" --25 Years After Voyager 1 Took the Iconic Image
It was on Feb. 14, 1990, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and snapped the first-ever pictures of the planets...
Starburst Galaxies May Create Stars Different From Those in the Milky Way
"All stars form in dense clouds of dust and gas," said Adam Leroy, an astronomer formerly with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)...
Friday, 13 February 2015
NASA VIDEO: Close-Up of Pluto's Moon Charon --Does It Harbor a Buried Ocean?
The time-lapse “movie” of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, below was recently shot at record-setting distances with the Long-Range Reconnaissance...
Gargantua! "Interstellar" Science Team Makes New Discoveries About the Movies Black Hole's Shadow
The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the centre of Christopher Nolan's epic, Interstellar, have turned science...
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Birth of a Star Quartet Observed
An international team of astrophysicists has witnessed a unique event: for the first time, researchers have discovered the formation of a...
Birth of a Star Quartet Observed
An international team of astrophysicists has witnessed a unique event: for the first time, researchers have discovered the formation of a...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
"New Phenomena Hints that Dark Matter May Be an Unknown Kind of Particle" (Today's Most Popular)
“Dark matter is there,” says says Paolo Zuccon, an assistant professor of physics at MIT. “We just don’t know what it is. AMS has the possibility...
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
White Dwarfs in Death Spiral Poised for a Spectacular Supernova
The team of astronomers, led by Miguel Santander-García (Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Alcalá de Henares, Spain; Instituto de Ciencia...
"Dark Matter Observed in the Innermost Region the Milky Way"
"We know that dark matter is needed in our Galaxy to keep the stars and gas rotating at their observed speeds," says Dr. Miguel Pato, at...
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