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City Lights Could Reveal Civilisations On Other Planets
Earth's biggest cities are visible from space at night thanks to street lighting. ET's probably are too, say astronomers The various pictures of Earth at night have become iconic images of humankind's impact on the
Read More »Three New Planets And A Mystery Object Discovered Outside Our Solar System
Three planets -- each orbiting its own giant, dying star -- have been discovered by an international research team led by a Penn State University astronomer. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the astronomers observed the
Read More »Does China Want To Own The Moon?
Within about 15 years, China could have a permanent presence on the moon, and be laying claim to its resources. There may not be anything the United
Read More »Was A Giant Planet Ejected From Our Solar System?
The Fifth Planet sounds like a great name for a sci-fi movie -- perhaps a sequel to the 1997 movie "The Fifth Element." But the fifth planet may be real; a hypothesized giant world
Read More »And The Temperature Of Dark Matter Is…?
One of the most amazing facts to comprehend about the Universe is that it actually is comprehensible! A few basic laws, properties and particles, given our current understanding, can take us from a hot,
Read More »Most Mysterious Star Discovered In Constellation Leo
Astrophysicists of Germany, France and Italy have discovered a very old star in the constellation of Leo, whose existence is a complete mystery to them. SDSS J102915 +172927, unlike other stars of the "same
Read More »NASA Launches Twin Spacecraft To Probe Inside The Moon
Two identical space probes are on their way to the moon, after launching today (Sept. 10) on NASA's newest lunar science mission aimed at unlocking mysteries of the moon that are hidden beneath its
Read More »Newly discovered exoplanet is the most Earth-like we’ve seen yet
Scientists have discovered an Earth-like plant approximately 31 light years from Earth and there’s a strong possibility of it harboring life. HD85512b orbits an orange dwarf in the constellation Vela and is the right
Read More »Fossils Are All Over Mars, Period.
Fossils are found in most meteorites (note A), which came from asteroids (note B), which originated from Mars (note C). So, fossils are all over Mars
Read More »We’re Going To See A Black Hole!
The idea of black holes has gone from a curious thought experiment to a theoretical likelihood to anear-certainty -- with thousands of known candidates -- in a very short time. But never before have we
Read More »Infinity Symbol Found In Milky Way Center, Bizarre Twisted Ribbon Of Gas
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more
Read More »Ten New Planets Discovered, One Orbiting Baby Star
A total of 10 new planets have been unearthed by an international team of scientists, and one of these is orbiting a star just a few tens of millions years old. Using the CoRoT (Convection,
Read More »Video: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide
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