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The day chosen to mark the event, June 30, has been picked with some precision since it was on June 30, 1908 that the...
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The European Space Agency announced Tuesday that its historic comet-chasing mission Rosetta had been extended until the end of September 2016. “The adventure continues,”...
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The study, carried out by Mark R. Showalter of the SETI Institute and Doug Hamilton based at the University of Maryland, reveals that at...
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Conventional scientific theory holds that water — composed of two hydrogen atoms coupled to a single oxygen atom — was something of a Johnny-come-lately...
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Large amounts of water may exist on numerous deep space bodies, said a study Thursday that raises the theoretical odds of another planet like...
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Bayfordbury Observatory is part of the University of Hertfordshire and it is located close to the historic market town of Hertford in the U.K....
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The maps, created using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, are designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe and help...
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The discovery of complex organic molecules in material surrounding the infant star MWC 480 points to conditions for the chemistry of life to exist...
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Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, astronomers studied a youthful star catalogued as W75N(B)-VLA 2...
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The finding was made using Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrumentation suite, part of the complement of scientific instruments carried by the exploration...