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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A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has proposed that the start of the Universe should be modeled not as...
An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages.
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University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia...
Astronomers at the University of California have found outflowing galactic winds with velocities up to 2,500 km per second that they detected in 29 massive...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging.
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A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...
A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...
A new study led by Zurich University researchers sheds light on the origin of a puzzling skull bone, known as the interparietal, in humans and all other...
Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...
A new study by Tel Aviv University scientists shows that the transition from hunting to agricultural society during the Neolithic age parallels development...
A planetary geologist from the University of California in Los Angeles has discovered the first strong evidence that the geological phenomenon known as...
Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help better explain the mysterious ‘dark...
A study led by the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich has revealed the presence of large amounts of invisible ‘dark matter’ near the Solar System.
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An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...
