Extraterrestrial Water Sources of the Milky Way Mapped
The Herschel Space Observatory’s HIFI instrument was designed to follow the water trail in the Universe over a wide range of scales, from the Solar System out to...
Neutrino Discovery Could Reveal Why Antimatter Failed to Dominate the Universe
A team of physicists, including some from MIT, has found surprising differences between the flavor-switching behavior of neutrinos and antineutrinos. If confirmed, the finding...
Has the Missing Link Between Organic and Inorganic Life Been Found? (A Weekend Feature)
Philosophers and scientists have argued about the origins of life from inorganic matter ever since Empedocles (430 B.C.) argued that every...
EcoAlert: Massive Greenland Glacier Sheds a 100 Square-Mile Ice Island
“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of...
Posted by Tom McFay in Astronomy on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Massive Supernova Discovered -Clues to the Existence of "Dark Energy" (A ‘Galaxy’ Most Popular)
While there is, on average, only one supernova per galaxy per century, there is something on the order of 100 billion galaxies in the...
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