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Dec 15, 2018Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. -
Dec 14, 2018Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census of star-hugging extrasolar planets. -
Dec 13, 2018Recently analyzed data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu. -
Dec 12, 2018Researchers have developed a new technique for looking at historic solar data to distinguish trustworthy observations from those that should be used with care. -
Dec 11, 2018A team led by Southwest Research Institute has concluded that the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is rich in organic matter. -
Dec 10, 2018Microorganisms living underneath the surface of the earth have a total carbon mass of 15 to 23 billion tons, hundreds of times more than that of humans, according to new findings. -
Dec 9, 2018Researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in their single-celled, extreme-loving counterparts, too. -
Dec 8, 2018Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon. -
Dec 8, 2018The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, according to new research. -
Dec 7, 2018An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets in only three months.
