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Keck Observatory: Since astronomers first measured the size of an extrasolar planet seventeen years ago, they have struggled to answer the question: how did the largest planets get to be so large? Thanks to the recent di...

A new study by the IceCube collaboration has shown that Earth stops the occasional neutrino, thus confirming a prediction made by the Standard Model. The post The Earth Does Stop the Occasional Neutrino appeared first on...

"One of the best ways to infer the presence of dark matter is to examine how objects move within it," explains Amina Helmi, with the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute and Leiden Observatory, both in the Netherlands. "In the...

"The evolution of multicellularity is as much a matter of physics as it is biology," said biologist Will Ratcliff, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Biological Sciences. "Physics does a lot for multicell...

Imagine what the iconic pillars of the Eagle Nebula would look like if a powerful force caused the stellar nursery to create stars at a thousand times its current rate.

"Eliminating the singularity or Big Bang brings back the bouncing Universe on to the theoretical stage of cosmology. The absence of a singularity at the start of spacetime opens up the possibility that vestiges of a prev...

By combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, University of Groningen astronomers have been able to measure the proper motion of 15 stars in the Sculptor Galaxy, the first such measurement of st...

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The unusually large sizes of some planets are likely related to heat flowing in and out of the their atmospheres, and several theories have been developed to explain this process. "However, since we don't have millions o...

ESO/NASA Video --Alien Interstellar Object "Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen" (WATCH Today's 'Galaxy' Stream) "The Climate-Change Event Horizon" --MIT Scientist Predicts the Tipping Point for Earth's 6th Mass Extinction (...

A dark cloud when observed with optical telescopes, the Chamaeleon I region reveals itself as an active hub of star formation in this far-infrared image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. Only around 550 light-years ...

Satellite communications providers for some time have been trying to show the military the potential advantages of multiple spot beam satellite designs. SpaceNews.com

Could 2,000 years of belief be wrong? Are we in fact living on a disc rather than a globe? One believer from the Flat Earth Society is determined to find out. "Mad" Mike Hughes is all set to build his own rocket to see f...

Neutron stars are made out of cold, ultra-dense matter. How this matter behaves is one of the biggest mysteries in modern nuclear physics. Researchers have developed a new method for measuring the radius of neutron stars...

A strange green comet that zoomed past Earth earlier this year is unlike any other comet observed to date, according to new NASA research.

Mars' magnetic field stands apart in the solar system because it gets twisted by interactions with solar particles, a NASA spacecraft discovered. What's more, the Red Planet could have lost its atmosphere through the sam...

Astronauts' blood changes in space -- but that may not stop them from getting to Mars.

Nobody knows the extent to which rocket launches and re-entering space debris affect Earth's atmosphere -- but such ignorance could be remedied soon.

This artist's rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass black hole was torn apart.

Army leaders designated Nov. 27 - Dec. 1 as "space week" with a dual focus on what the Army needs and does in space.

A planet circling a star in the constellation Cancer might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's -- but with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt titanium.

Fierce stellar storms may shine light on some key signs of life in the atmospheres of exoplanets.