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Planck All-sky

The Planck spacecraft, designed to observe the cosmic microwave in unprecedented detail, releases its first all sky map.

Astronomers verify directly imaged planet

Tags: Astronomy

Astronomers verify that a supposed directly imaged exoplanet is indeed a planet.

Earth and Moon formed later than previously thought

Tags: Astronomy

The Earth and Moon may have been formed over a hundred million years later than previously thought.

How many planets are out there? First Results from Kepler!

The science team for the Kepler spacecraft announces the discovery of 306 new extrasolar planets.

Has life on Titan been discovered? No.

Some characteristics of Titan's atmosphere is consistent with the existence of methane-based life, although there are likely other explanations.

Star: om nom nom! Planet: Aieee!

Tags: Astronomy

An exoplanet discovered last year appears to be in the process of being eaten by its parent star.

Jupiter Just Got Smacked, Again

Tags: Astronomy

The same astronomer that observed an impact on Jupiter in 2009 manages to observe another one.

Astronomers Discover a New Type of Supernova

Tags: Astronomy

Astronomers have discovered a new type of exploding star that spews huge quantities of calcium and defies the two known categories of supernovae.

Whence Matter?

Tags: Physics

An asymmetry between matter and antimatter which is much larger than what is predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics may have been discovered.

Clues to Missing Matter

Tags: Astronomy

The Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton have detected a huge reservoir of interstellar gas apparently embedded in a large-scale structure known as the Sculptor Wall, some 400 million light years from Earth.

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