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Curiosity finds conditions once suited to life on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013

An ancient network of rivers on Mars could once have supported life according to the latest finding…

New evidence that asteroid caused dinosaur demise

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2013

In an attempt to discover what wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have now determined the most pr…

Weighing the most distant black holes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013

A new technique that can measure the mass of supermassive black holes may revolutionise our underst…

One in six stars has Earth-sized planet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2013

A new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data has revealed that about 17% of stars have an Earth-sized p…

Galaxy cluster ‘dark core’ not so dark after all

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jan 2013

When NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed an overabundance of dark matter in the core of the merg…

Ultra-hot test rig for Space-Age ceramics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2013

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed the first testing facility that enables CT-scanning of c…

Nearby ‘super-Earth’ may support life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2012

An international team of astronomers have discovered an alien planet, believed to have a similar cl…

Water ice discovered on Mercury

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2012

Water ice has been discovered on Mercury, despite it being the nearest planet to the Sun, often rea…

Moon born in violent collision

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012

Planetary scientists have discovered evidence that the Moon was created when a body the size of Mar…

Surprise black hole duo discovery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2012

An international team of astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about globular star clusters…

Meteorite reveals Martian secrets

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Nov 2012

A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more clues about Mars, it…

The hungry black hole

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012

A black hole in our galaxy may devour an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. Supercomput…

Disintegrating planet has comet-like tail

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Oct 2012

Astronomers have discovered a faraway planet with a dusty tail. !--more-- In May 2012, researcher…

Mapping the universe with artificial intelligence

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012

Researchers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to chart and explai…

Historic observation of rare exploding star

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2012

The first ever direct observations of a type1a supernova - the ‘standard candle’ for astronomers to…

Milky Way galaxy ‘twins’ discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2012

The Milky Way is a far from unique galaxy, but when paired with its close companions - dwarf galaxi…

Explosive solar activity imaged

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Aug 2012

New images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into a coronal loop have helped scientists move cl…

Milky Way to collide with Andromeda

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2012

The Milky Way looks set to collide with neighbouring galaxy Andromeda – but not for another four bi…