The tera from outer space
Astronomers discover the most energetic gamma-ray burst ever witnessedCredit: NASA Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind. ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Outback telescope captures Milky Way center, discovers remnants of dead stars
Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a ...
Fly me (partway) to the moon
To measure the Moon's brightness, NIST scientists sent a telescope as high as planes can flyCredit: NASA photo/Ken Ulbrich Last ...
Ohio University entomologist: Photos show evidence of life on Mars
Analysis of images from Mars rovers shows insect- and reptile-like fossils, creaturesCredit: Analysis by Dr. William Romoser ATHENS, Ohio (Nov. ...
Scientists find evidence of missing neutron star
Astronomers uncover the relic at the heart of Supernova 1987A that has been hidden for over 30 yearsCredit: Cardiff University ...
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be ...
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA ...
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don’t add up
The mystery of the Hubble constantCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltetch/ESA-Planck Collaboration/SINC Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of ...
Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed
Credit: Erping Sun In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the ...
The ways astronauts prep for spaceflight could benefit cancer patients, say researchers
Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center During spaceflight, astronauts experience similar physical stress as cancer patients undergoing treatments such as ...
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November ...
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is ...
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environmentCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have long been puzzled ...
Distant worlds under many suns
University of Jena astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanetsCredit: (Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Is Earth the only habitable planet ...
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