The Great Supernova Mystery
“The question of what causes a Type Ia supernova is one of the great unsolved mysteries in astronomy,” Rosanne Di Stefano of the...
Was Life Discovered on Mars By NASA? Some Experts Say "Yes" (Holiday Feature)
The red planet is far more than just a catalyst for scientific change or an interplanetary base camp. Mars, says Robert Zubrin, founder of The Mars Society, is...
2.5 Billion Year-Old Fossils Found -World’s Oldest
At 2.1 billion years old, a new fossil could be the earliest known multicellular life form.The earliest life to display multicellularity is a hotly...
10,000 Suns -Most Dense Star Cluster in Milky Way Located
With a mass of more than 10 000 suns packed into a volume with a diameter of a mere three light-years, the massive young star cluster in the nebula NGC 3603 is...
Does Newly Discovered Supernova Point to Unknown Laws of Physics?
In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers’ attention to strange exploding stars that may point to new and unusual physics....

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