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An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and…
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Harnessing the exquisite sensitivity of the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have…
This animation demonstrates how deformation in the icy surface of Europa could transport subsurface ocean…
An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the…
Scientists have found that molecular oxygen around comet 67P is not produced on its surface,…
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June…
A new study using data from NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the…
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over…
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New research shows that Uranus was hit by a massive object roughly twice the size…
This image of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound…
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image…