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  Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves?

  8 hours ago

  Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence gravitational waves. In a recently ...

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  Solar minimum is coming

  12 hours ago

  High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year.

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  Space farms will feed astronauts and earthlings

  12 hours ago

  Canadian researchers are leading an effort to grow crops in space, paving the way for humanity to live on other worlds and push the frontiers on Earth.

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  New 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet detected by K2 mission

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  (Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers has identified a new extrasolar planet from the data provided by Kepler spacecraft's prolonged mission known as K2. The newly found exoworld, designated EPIC 228735255b, is ...

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  NASA keeps a close eye on tiny stowaways

  13 hours ago

  Wherever you find people, you also find bacteria and other microorganisms. The International Space Station is no exception.

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  'Celestial Sleuth' identifies Lord Byron's stellar inspiration

  14 hours ago

  What do the moon, Jupiter and the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history have in common? Exactly 200 years ago they all combined to inspire renowned British Romantic poet Lord Byron in writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," ...

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  'Pompom' stars may solve quasar puzzle

  15 hours ago

  Gas filaments surrounding stars like the strands of a pompom may be the answer to a 30-year old mystery: why quasars twinkle.

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  The stable retrograde orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid explained

  15 hours ago

  In our solar system, an asteroid orbits the sun in the opposite direction to the planets. Asteroid 2015 BZ509, also known as Bee-Zed, takes 12 years to make one complete orbit around the sun. This is the same orbital period ...

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  In rural Kentucky, solar eclipse preparation keeps town busy (Update)

  18 hours ago

  Cross over the old Louisville & Nashville Railroad in this town remembered for its Civil War encampment and you'll see the first signs—there's fresh anticipation in the rural areas that will be prime viewing locations for ...

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  Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'?

  18 hours ago

  Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation.