Our solar system is a perfectly balanced cosmic entity that supports our Sun eight planets and a dwarf planet, Pluto. However, this gravitationally stable system has been able to stay this way becaus… [+2108 chars]
In 2015, it was found that the strongest known biologically occurring material, was possessed by limpets, a marine mollusk that has a shallow conical shell, often found attached to rocks. These smal… [+3989 chars]
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The matter in an accretion disk must lose angular momentum when moving radially inwards, but how this works has long been a mystery. The gas within the disks spirals slowly inward toward the star. T… [+5408 chars]
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is all about studying near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In a recent development, researchers have found new secrets about asteroid Bennu, that too when a tiny object hit the astero… [+1918 chars]
Rapid bursts of radio waves that originate millions to billions of light-years away from Earth could be used as probes to investigate halos of difficult-to-see diffuse gas surrounding nearby galaxies… [+4088 chars]
As our devices get smaller and smaller, the use of molecules as the main components in electronic circuitry is becoming ever more critical. Over the past 10 years, researchers have been trying to use… [+4685 chars]
Look to the sky after dusk to see the bright stars of the Summer Triangle asterism — Vega, Deneb and Altair — rise above the eastern horizon. The Summer Triangle is an annual feature of the northe… [+2937 chars]
Astronomers from the Istanbul University in Turkey report the finding of a new short-period pulsating variable star during observations of the field of exoplanet host star XO-2. The newly detected ob… [+3381 chars]
Two sounding rockets are launching from Australia this month, carrying experiments designed to measure whether the ultraviolet light coming from the stars of the Alpha Centauri system could be harmfu… [+4852 chars]
Private space company Nanoracks has announced the successful first test of a new technology to get rid of trash from the International Space Station. The International Space Station may seem glamoro… [+2626 chars]
UC Santa Barbara Professor Ben Mazin is developing precision optical sensors for telescopes and observatories. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, he and his team improved the spectra re… [+5955 chars]
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