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A Diamond Bigger Than Earth?
Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of...
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Space Travel: Pioneer Anomaly Solved?
The 100 Year Spaceship Symposium, an international event advocating human expansion into other star systems, has some crucial hurdles...
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Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in...
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New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Supermassive Black Holes
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population...
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NASA Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our...
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How Order Arises From the Random Motion of Particles in the Cosmos
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...
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Astronomers Discover Star Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of...
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Most Precise Measurement of Universe’s Expansion Achieved
The most precise measurement ever made of the speed of the universe’s expansion is in, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer...
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Neighboring Black Holes Defy Predictions of Violent Interactions
Around the cosmos, black holes aren’t known for being the nicest neighbors. They tend to make their presence felt...