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The scientists of the Inter-University Department of Space Research of Samara University presented a prototype…
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from…
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Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic…
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions…
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings…
Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or…
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international…
Many men suffering from advanced-stage prostate cancer appear to share at least one thing in…
Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is…
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a live-streamed Science Chat at 2 p.m. EDT…
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole…
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic…
At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova.…