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Category: Space
‘Bubble’ of Galaxies: Revolution of Cosmology
An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant ‘bubble’ of galaxies, measuring one billion light-years across, in the nearby universe. Team member Dr Cullan Howlett from The University of…
Recipes for Origin of Life Point to Distant, Inhabited Planets
Life on a faraway planet — if it’s out there — might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so many chemical ingredients in the universe’s…
Virtual Solar System Transforms Learners Into Astronauts
A new method of exploration Instead of using virtual reality headsets, this experience utilizes handheld tablets that serve as windows into the virtual space. “When you’re wearing virtual reality goggles,…
Sentinel-1 Reveals Shifts From Morocco Earthquake
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September, satellite data have been made available through the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’ to help emergency response teams on…
NASA’s VERITAS science team studies volcanic Iceland
Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in early August. The team used…
If astronomers see these chemicals in a planet’s atmosphere, there’s likely an advanced civilization there
Artist rendition of a potential water-world exoplanet that might support advanced civilizations. Such life could advertise its existence via technosignatures from industrial or other activities. Credit: ESA / Hubble /…
NASA joins the still controversial search for UFOs
Reports of UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena — have long fascinated the public but were historically shunned by mainstream science. NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs—but reflecting…
Solar Orbiter closes in on the solution to a 65-year-old solar mystery
The Sun’s atmosphere is called the corona. It consists of an electrically charged gas known as plasma with a temperature of around one million degrees Celsius. Its temperature is an…
