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Milky Way Just Got Bigger by 50 Percent, Study

By Peter R - Mar 12, 2015 05:16 PM EDT

Analysis of data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey showed researchers our galaxy could be bigger than its currently known size.

Finding Dark Matter: Milky Way's Dwarf Neighbor the Key?

By Peter R - Mar 11, 2015 07:45 AM EDT

The dwarf galaxy showed higher than normal gamma ray activity that has researchers intrigued.

After Being Written Off, Earth-Like Planet that Could Support Life Indeed Exists

By Peter R - Mar 10, 2015 03:21 PM EDT

GJ581d, the first exoplanet was not a data anomaly as was claimed last year, a new study argues.

LHC Could Unravel Dark Matter-Higgs Boson Link Later This Year

By Peter R - Mar 09, 2015 03:47 PM EDT

The collider is expected to recommence operation in May.

"Interstellar" Movie May Have Accurately Portrayed Black Holes, Scientists

By Peter R - Feb 13, 2015 04:59 PM EST

Visual effects team of the movie has published a paper on their efforts to portray a black hole.

Multi-Star System 800 Light Years Away from Earth Excites Astronomers

By Peter R - Feb 12, 2015 02:42 PM EST

The system is the youngest of its kind to be observed and astronomers hope it can explain multiple star systems in great detail.

Last Year's Biggest Physics Discovery Falls Flat as Cosmologists Mistook Dust for Gravity

By Peter R - Feb 03, 2015 01:49 PM EST

The discovery of unique patterns attributed to primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background was actually caused by dust.

Recipe for Habitable Planets Revealed in New Study

By Peter R - Jan 30, 2015 04:10 PM EST

A new study shows that two important space activities perpetuated by M dwarfs, tidal force and stellar activity, can turn Neptune-like planets into Earth-like planets.

Kepler Discovers an Ancient 11-Billion Year Planetary System

By Peter R - Jan 28, 2015 09:25 AM EST

The system has five planets orbiting a star 25 percent smaller than the Sun.

Asteroid Makes a Safe Pass Past Earth, with a Moon in Tow

By Peter R - Jan 27, 2015 10:34 AM EST

Radar images from NASA show the asteroid 2004 BL86 flying past with an orbiting moon.

Super Saturn With Massive Rings Eclipses its Sun

By Peter R - Jan 27, 2015 10:33 AM EST

A new planet discovered has rings so massive that it can eclipse the system's star.

With the Power of Million Suns, Unusual Radio Burst from Deep Space Excite Astronomers

By Peter R - Jan 19, 2015 03:33 PM EST

Astronomers across the world are now glued to identifying the source behind the unusual radio burst that is said to have happened 5.5 billion light years.

Missing Spacecraft Beagle2 Found Parked on Mars After Vanishing for More Than a Decade

By Peter R - Jan 16, 2015 04:39 PM EST

A NASA team located the missing Mars lander from high resolution images taken by Mars Orbiter.

New Research Overturns Existing Notions of Planet Creation from Meteorites

By Peter R - Jan 15, 2015 04:51 PM EST

A study from MIT claims that meteorites were by-products of planet formation and were not the building blocks.

Radiation Emitting Pulsar in Far Space Spins Out of View, To Emerge 160 Years Later

By Peter R - Jan 10, 2015 06:47 AM EST

A pulsar which was under observation for the last five years has suddenly disappeared as it entered a space-time warp.

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