Category: Science & Space
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Progress made toward lunar liquid mirror telescope
Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that […]
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Eta Carinae, when will it blow?
Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone’s throw – astronomically speaking – from […]
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Mars rover finds water puddles?
A new analysis of pictures taken by the exploration rover Opportunity reveals what appear to be small ponds of liquid […]
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Merging Black Holes Observed in New Detail
Scientists have pinpointed the precise locations of a pair of supermassive black holes at the centers of two colliding galaxies […]
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Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a […]
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How Dark Matter Might Have Snuffed Out the First Stars
What role did dark matter play in the early Universe? Since it makes up the majority of matter, it must […]
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Japan Prepares Space Station’s Largest Laboratory for Flight
Pieces of the largest laboratory to launch towards the International Space Station (ISS) are coming together and Japan couldn’t be […]
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Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time […]
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Reflections of Absolute Zero
If you want to really see quantum mechanics in action, you’ve got to turn the temperature down so low that […]
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Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of […]