Because water is one of the primary requirements for life as we know it, finding large new reservoirs of frozen water on Mars is an encouraging sign for…
A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scale–by allowing, for the first time, the real-time,…
Now NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve the mystery of the loner starburst galaxy, called NGC 1569, by showing that it is one and a half…
They are a bigger version of the zodiacal dust in our Solar System. Its disc was the first to be imaged — as early as 1984 — and remains the best-studied…
The aurorae on Mars were discovered in 2004 using the SPICAM ultraviolet and infrared atmospheric spectrometer on board Mars Express. They are a powerful tool…
Scientists from the University of Michigan, the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County…
There has never been a good system for dealing with space waste – the space shuttle now brings full trash bags back to Earth; on the Russian space station MIR,…
In a paper entitled A Planetary Nebula around Nova V458 Vul Undergoing Flash Ionization, which will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on Thursday…
This statement was made by Professor Ferenc Krausz, Managing Director of MPQ, and Professor Ali Al-Gamdi, Vice Rector of KSU, on the occasion of a small start…
As the global population continues to grow exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively small, as if we’re all protagonists in the…
When atoms in a crystal are struck by laser light, their electrons, excited by the light, typically begin moving back and forth together in a regular pattern,…
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations, or calculations) per second, incorporating 1.382…
This landmark project – Telescopes for Schools – is just part of the global effort to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009), which…
This is the first time that astronomers have caught a flare with these telescopes simultaneously. The telescopes' location in the southern hemisphere provides…
The study, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, predicts that the combined mass of the two stars in the system may be high enough for the stars to…
These convulsions flung primordial material billions of miles from the hot, inner regions of the gas cloud that later collapsed to form the sun, out into the…
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