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

  • Editage Insights
  • November 13, 2014

An influential group of US astronomers have proposed the building of the High-Definition Space Telescope (HDST), the biggest and most advanced space telescope,…

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  • July 7, 2015

Using information about gravitational waves, acquired from the Parkes radio telescope, scientists have been able to study the growth of supermassive black…

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  • October 18, 2013

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

According to a new study, the presence of molecular hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water on Mars could have created a greenhouse effect on the red planet 3.…

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  • November 28, 2013

Climate scientists have proposed different ways of countering global warming that has warmed the planet – for instance, pumping water-based sulphate spray into the sky…

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  • October 27, 2015

Pluto, the dwarf planet, has five satellites out of which three satellites named Styx, Nix, and Hydra have become gravitationally locked and are moving together…

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  • June 5, 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

The opinion of scientists is divided about the relation between mass extinctions and impact craters caused by asteroid and comet showers on Earth. Now two researchers…

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  • October 22, 2015

A team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona, USA, have discovered an exoplanet, named HD 131399Ab, which has three stars. As a result, it likely experiences…

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  • July 11, 2016