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Supernova linked to human bipedalism

May 29, 2019
A supernova that occurred 8 million years ago has been linked to humans walking on two legs.

Quark founder and Nobel Prize winner passes away

May 28, 2019
US physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a leading figure in the creation of the Standard Model of particle physics, has passed away at the age of 89.

NASA detects likely marsquake

April 24, 2019
Seismic activity has been detected on a planet other than Earth for the first time. NASA's InSight space lander detected faint activity from the interior of Mars on April 6,...

Titanic lakes filled with methane

April 18, 2019
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed that liquid lakes on Saturn’s largest moon are more than 300 feet deep and filled with methane. Radar measurements provide new details of...

First black hole image revealed

April 10, 2019
The first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole has been unveiled.The image, revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope, shows the black hole at the centre of Messier 87,...

Twisted Milky Way

March 18, 2019
3D mapping of the Milky Way galaxy shows that it is not flat but warped and twisted in shape.

Saturnian day deduced from ring formations

January 30, 2019
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has enabled a more accurate estimate of the length of a day on Saturn.The new estimate of 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds, is...

Black hole gas rings flow in complex formations

November 30, 2018
The black hole "donut" is not actually a rigid structure. The black rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes, but a complex collection of...

NASA’s InSight spacecraft lands on Mars

November 27, 2018
NASA’s InSight robot lander has successfully touched down on the surface of Mars.The spacecraft touched down on Monday, November 26, near Mars’ equator on the western side of a flat...

This isn’t the binary system you’re looking for…

May 8, 2018
Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers study the habitability of circumbinary planets – those that orbit two stars instead of just one, much like the fictional planet Tatooine in the Star...

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