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Planet 9 ‘stolen’ by our Sun

June 20, 2016
Scientists in Sweden have said it’s highly likely that Planet 9 was stolen from the orbit of another sun by our own almost five billion years ago.

Astronomers detect hydrogen gas signal emitted before Earth existed

June 14, 2016
Astronomers have managed to detect hydrogen gas signals from a galaxy that existed before the Earth even formed - more than five billion light years away.

New metamaterial flat lens produced

June 13, 2016
A new flat lens has been created which has the possibility to replace lenses used in all different types of devices such as microscopes and cameras.

Seebeck effect could drastically reduce vehicles’ CO_ emissions

June 7, 2016
A 200 year old discovery is to be used to save vehicles using huge amounts of fuel while lowering their annual carbon emissions by as much as 1,000 tonnes a...

Clues to supermassive black hole creation found

June 6, 2016
Italian scientists believe they have found two objects in the early universe that are the origin of supermassive black holes.

‘Weak’ physical forces measured for first time

May 31, 2016
Individual van der Waals forces between individual atoms have been measured for the first time by scientists at the University of Basel.

Lasers used to create new compounds

May 20, 2016
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have used lasers to manipulate atoms in hydrocarbons.

New understanding of Sun’s infancy possible

May 19, 2016
The ability to view in depth images of a nearby star has provided an international team of astronomers with the chance to understand the Sun’s behaviour billions of years ago.

Hubble discovers new moon

May 10, 2016
A small moon has been discovered orbiting Makemake, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, by the Hubble Telescope.

Supermassive black hole find defies science prediction

April 26, 2016
NASA scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely part of the universe, which suggests there are more black holes in existence than previously thought.

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