An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars.
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German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water.
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An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms.
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New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...
Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster.
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Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...
A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy.
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An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.
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A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...
A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold.
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European archaeologists using geophysical methods have mapped an ancient Roman town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies...
A multinational team of astronomers led by University of Texas researchers has spotted the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves in a binary...
Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away.
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European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.
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The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
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According to an international team of paleontologists, a 9.7-meter-long mortichnia of a horseshoe crab unearthed at a famous fossil locality in Germany...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system.
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