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NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in ...
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Next challenge for the Large Hadron Collider
The world’s most powerful particle collider is waking up from a well-earned rest. After roughly two years of heavy maintenance.
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Quantum physics just got less complicated
Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought.
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Suffocating Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole
High-energy jets powered by supermassive black holes can blast away a galaxy’s star-forming fuel.
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From warp drives to holodecks, Seven Star Trek technologies scientists are working on
Researchers are slowly inching their way towards even the most extreme technology of science fiction.
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Kepler reborn, makes first exoplanet find of new mission.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission -- K2.
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The Mystery of Earth’s Theta Aurora
The mystery of the northern lights – aurora – spans time beyond history and to cultures of both the southern and northern hemispheres.
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NuSTAR telescope shows the sun blasting out X-rays
Pop quiz, hotshot: What do you get when you heat gas above 3 million degrees Celsius? High-energy X-rays.
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Researchers propose ballistic capture as cheaper path to Mars
(Phys.org)—Space scientists Francesco Topputo and Edward Belbruno are proposing in a paper they have written and uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the idea of using ballistic capture as a means of getting to Mars, rather than the traditional Hohmann transfer approach.
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The Year's 29 Most Spectacular Space Photos
The year 2014 was a stellar one for spaceflight, what with ESA's Rosetta mission putting a robotic lander on a distant comet and NASA successfully testing its Orion spacecraft.
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Comet Q2 Lovejoy Set to Ring in the New Year: Reader Images and More
A fine capture of Comet Q2 Lovejoy on December 21st from Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes
Three groups of experimentalists have independently observed a strange state of matter that forms from three particles of any type and at any scale.
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Study reveals the origin of high-latitude auroras
University of Leicester research helps solve space mystery of amazing high latitude auroras
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Hubble Discovers That Milky Way Core Drives Wind at 2 Million Miles Per Hour
At a time when our earliest human ancestors mastered walking upright the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.
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2015: Year of the exomoon?
When you think about all the Jupiter-sized exoplanets we've found, with plenty in the habitable zone, the allure of exomoons should become obvious.
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NASA Observatories Take an Unprecedented Look into Superstar Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is known for its surprising behavior, erupting twice in the 19th century for reasons scientists still don't understand. A long-term study led by astronomers at NASA's…
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Hunt for Philae hangs in the balance
Rosetta mission would have to sacrifice other science to search for comet lander.
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The Entire Milky Way Might Be a Huge Wormhole That's Stable and Navigable
Our very own Milky Way could be home to a giant tunnel in space time. At least, that's what the authors of a new study have proposed.
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Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron is a metal, which means it can easily conduct a flow of electrons that makes up an electric current. ...
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Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed
UC Berkeley physicists used partially entangled atoms identical to the qubits in a quantum computer to demonstrate more precisely than ever before - to one part in a billion billion - that space is uniform in all directions and not squeezed.
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