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Making Space For Art?
Two art projects were launched into space yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. If all goes well, they will settle into orbits around the Earth. (read more)
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Cosmic Titan Discovery
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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Sons of a Galactic Wasteland
Sons Of Alpha Centauri get a little space-y with latest instrumental release ‘Continuum’ – but is it cool, Sci-Fi space or just the dark bits in between? (read more)
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Cosmic Crash by Sausage
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)
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Solar Flares Can Now Be Studied On Earth
Swedish physicists have proposed a method for studying solar flares in a laboratory environment. (read more)
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Astronauts Can Now Identify Genes in Space
First-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard a space station (read more)
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Alchemical Ponderings – Where Exactly Does Gold Come From?
An international group of scientists reveals the mystery about the origin of gold (read more)
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The Space That Holds the Stars
Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics (read more)
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Good News: We Can Terraform Mars. Bad News: It’ll Stink
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen thanks to plasma technology (read more)
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Tracking the Ripples in the Cosmic Web
A team of astronomers has made the first measurements of small-scale ripples in primeval hydrogen gas using rare double quasars (read more)
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Asteroids: If the impact doesn’t get you, what will?
In an asteroid impact, violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans (read more)
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Where in the Universe did that Fast Radio Burst Come From?
Cosmic source found for mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ (read more)
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Gaze Thee Upon the Cosmic Metamaser
The Hubble Space Telescope offers some seasonal images of a newly discovered Cosmic Metamaser (read more)
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In Search of Trojan Asteroids : The Solar System’s Silent Watchers
Trojan asteroids are travel companions to planets as they orbit the Sun. It’s time to find them. (read more)
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We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul
As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh (read more)
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Are YOU Nature’s Roundest Thing?
Max Planck Institute scholars answer the question: what is the roundest thing in the universe? (read more)
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Meteorites Show Martian Drought Was Long-Lived
Mars is incredibly dry, and has been that way for millions of years. (read more)
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Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars
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)
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Forget Hornby, How About 3D Printing the Universe?
Physicists make it possible to 3-D print your own baby universe (read more)
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Tin Foil Hats. No, Really: The dementia risk of galactic cosmic ray exposure
UCI study raises questions about long-term brain health after extended spaceflights (read more)
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Where next for the Curiosity Mars Rover? (And will there be explosions?)
To the Murray Formation – and Beyond! The Mars Curiosity rover sets its GPS for new horizons (read more)
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Banging Rocks to find Life on Mars
Seismic activity on Mars may produce enough hydrogen to support life (read more)
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Now That’s Impressive: Water-Powered Satellite to Orbit Moon
Cornell’s quest: Make the first CubeSat to orbit the moon (read more)
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Dark Matter: New Data on The Real Fifth Element
UCI physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature (read more)
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The Beauty of the Bubble Nebula – New Hubble Images
On it’s 26th birthday, the Hubble Space Telescope relays back images of the spectacular Bubble Nebula (read more)
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Looking for Habitable Exoplanets? Search for the Pale Orange Dot
Early Earth’s haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space (read more)
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Free Alcohol! Comet Lovejoy’s Interstellar Booze Cruise
Researchers catch Comet Lovejoy giving away alcohol (read more)
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Stretching Your Spacelegs for a Landing on Mars: NASA’s Workout
Assault courses on Mars? NASA studies physical performance after spaceflight (read more)
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Working those Muscles in Artificial Gravity
For the first time, we’re showing there’s a symbiosis when one combines the best aspects of exercise, and the best aspects of artificial gravity. (read more)
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Will We Cope With Martian Flu?
Spaceflight may be associated with a process of accelerated aging of the immune system. (read more)