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Scientists Discover New ‘Pinwheel’ Star System

21/11/2018 Naila Scargill

An international team of scientists has discovered a new, massive star system, that also challenges existing theories on how large stars eventually die. (read more)

Cosmic Titan Discovery

17/10/2018 Naila Scargill

The galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.
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Cosmic Crash by Sausage

04/07/2018 Naila Scargill

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed the Sausage galaxy. (read more)

The Space That Holds the Stars

22/11/2017 Professor Bobby Acharya

Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics (read more)

Winnowing the Chaff for Improved Planet-Hunting

23/10/2017 Trebuchet News

New NASA study improves search for habitable worlds (read more)

Trappist-1 by ESON./ Bartmannspaceengine.org

First Glimpse of Water on Trappist-1 Planet Group

01/09/2017 Trebuchet News

Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets (read more)

Diamond rain by Greg Stewart SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Twinkle Twinkle: Observing Neptune’s Diamond Rain

24/08/2017 Trebuchet News

International team of researchers uncovers the inner workings of cosmic ice giants (read more)

Within a Watery Moon: New Analysis of Lunar Interior

26/07/2017 Trebuchet News

Scientists spy new evidence of water in the moon’s interior (read more)

Bigger than Huge: Saraswati redefines ‘Massive’

14/07/2017 Trebuchet News

Indian astrophysicists identify megastructure of galaxies 4 billion light-years away (read more)

Tracking the Ripples in the Cosmic Web

02/05/2017 Trebuchet News

A team of astronomers has made the first measurements of small-scale ripples in primeval hydrogen gas using rare double quasars (read more)

Asteroids: If the impact doesn’t get you, what will?

21/04/2017 Trebuchet News

In an asteroid impact, violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans (read more)

Rad! The Star On the Brink of a Black Hole

20/03/2017 Trebuchet News

Star discovered in closest known orbit around black hole (read more)

Turn Those Northern Lights OFF! They’re Messing With My GPS.

17/03/2017 Trebuchet News

New research on northern lights will improve satellite navigation accuracy (read more)

Arcuate Striations: The Clue to Life on Mars

17/02/2017 Trebuchet News

Researchers pinpoint watery past on Mars (read more)

Where in the Universe did that Fast Radio Burst Come From?

07/01/2017 Trebuchet News

Cosmic source found for mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ (read more)

Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

07/01/2017 Phil Rockstroh

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. (read more)

Gaze Thee Upon the Cosmic Metamaser

02/01/2017 Trebuchet News

The Hubble Space Telescope offers some seasonal images of a newly discovered Cosmic Metamaser (read more)

In Search of Trojan Asteroids : The Solar System’s Silent Watchers

15/12/2016 Trebuchet News

Trojan asteroids are travel companions to planets as they orbit the Sun. It’s time to find them. (read more)

Are YOU Nature’s Roundest Thing?

18/11/2016 Trebuchet News

Max Planck Institute scholars answer the question: what is the roundest thing in the universe? (read more)

Meteorites Show Martian Drought Was Long-Lived

13/11/2016 Trebuchet News

Mars is incredibly dry, and has been that way for millions of years. (read more)

Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars

31/10/2016 Trebuchet News

opical news from NASA couldn’t be more timely on this Hallowe’en day. They’ve found a bunch of stars that look like pumpkins. Hooray. If only there were some sort of important event or personage that (read more)