Tag: astrophysics

The study of molten exoplanets around Sun-like stars may provide answers as to the formation of Earth-like planets and the ...

The galaxies date from the so-called cosmic Dark Ages.

It almost sounds too cheesy to be true: NASA wants to send a shuttle to an asteroid, pluck a piece ...

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered what they believe to be the oldest star ...

The world, known as HD189733b, has a deep azure hue, probably the result of molten silicate glass rain in the ...

This year’s Nobel Prize winning finding that the ‘Universe is accelerating’ is being subjected to another validation test in the ...

One of the most outstanding dreams astronomers and other scientists hope to accomplish is to someday encounter proof that extraterestrial ...

Astronomers at  UC Santa Cruz have set  a new benchmark for cosmological research for decades to come maybe, after successfully simulating ...

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Since 1995, over 500 planets that don't orbit our Sun have been discovered, with the numbers increasing more and more ...

An intriguing hypothesis was brought up by Professor Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London and Professor Alan Coley ...

In case you have no idea who Carl Sagan is... well, you should, basically. Carl Sagan is one of those ...

In 2004, NASA researchers identified the Apophis asteroid and after some quick calculations they states there is a chance the ...

The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers ...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...

The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...

The US-Japan Sukazu observatory reported the finding of some never-before seen embers from the high temperature fireballs that immediately follower ...

I was quite stunned to stumble across this video. As the name says, it's a... well it's not quite a ...

As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...

You may or may not have heard about blue stragglers; they are blue stars that are hotter and bluer than ...