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Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology and Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden, studied supermassive black holes to find out whether they were…

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  • April 21, 2015

A group of researchers, including Dr. John Pasley of the York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, discovered that stars generate sound. Read more…

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  • March 26, 2015

A team of Japanese researchers found an unusual community of bacteria thriving in the canyon called Challenger Deep. The microscopic bacteria are called heterotrophs,…

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  • February 25, 2015

An international group of astronomers has made a significant discovery using NASA’s Keplar spacecraft. Three planets that are just a little bigger than Earth have been…

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  • January 20, 2015

Giant sand dunes make up the surface of Titan, Saturn’s moon, and these dunes made of hydrocarbon particles may have existed for thousands of years…

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  • December 9, 2014

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Philae spacecraft created history when it landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft began its journey to…

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  • November 13, 2014

A group of astronomers has analyzed telescope data collected over 12 years and found a signal that could be the first ever detection of dark matter. The dark matter…

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  • October 20, 2014

Could water have been one of the planet-forming materials in the Solar System? Ilsedore Cleeves, an astrochemist conducted a study wherein she created a…

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  • September 29, 2014

Latest findings suggest that Saturn's rings originated around 4.4 billion years ago. NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has measured…

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  • August 20, 2014

In mid-July, a mysterious 30-meter-wide crater was spotted in the frozen Yamal peninsula in Siberia. Although many theories abounded over the cause of the crater,…

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  • August 5, 2014