All Astronomy


Half as much dark matter as astronomers thought

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2014

The Milky Way contains half as much dark matter than previously thought according to new research w…

GRAIL visualises man in the Moon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma…

Meteorite points to life on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2014

A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…

Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…

Alice returns results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2014

Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully…

Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2014

A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers.!--more…

Van der Waals prevents asteroid spinning apart

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Aug 2014

A near-Earth asteroid rotates so quickly that it defies gravity and is held together by van der Waa…

Rosetta catches up to comet 67P

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014

Comet-chaser Rosetta has completed its decade-long journey and finally met up with comet 67P.!--mor…

Voyager may not be in interstellar space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2014

In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic mil…

Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2014

NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as …

Spectral rule to measure stars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014

Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars.!--more-- It is the firs…

Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2014

A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…

Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2014

The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth…

Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2014

Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year…

Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2014

Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed …

A change of heart…in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2014

Astronauts’ hearts become more spherical in space say NASA scientists, which could lead to cardiac …

Super-Earths likely to be dead worlds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2014

Many of the super-Earths discovered in recent planet-hunting missions are likely to be dead, uninha…

Cosmic collision created ringed planet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Apr 2014

A comet-like planet surrounded by two fine rings of ice and pebbles has been found between Saturn a…

The slow thaw

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2014

Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big B…

New evidence for Big Bang

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014

Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansio…