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The return of sunspots! Maybe!

Tags: Astronomy

More sunspots appear on the Sun, a possible indication that it might finally be moving out of solar minimum.

"A Tantalizing Hint of Dark Matter?" No.

Tags: Physics

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search has so far been unable to convincingly detect dark matter particles.

Saturn moon mutated by red matter

Tags: Astronomy

Melting and migrating water ice may be the reason for the different colors of the hemispheres of Iapetus, a moon of Saturn.

A hex on Saturn (again)!

Tags: Astronomy

The Cassini spacecraft is able to observe the hexagon around Saturn's north pole in visible light.

searching for the biggest stars in the cosmos

Tags: Astronomy

Supernova SN2007bi turns out to be the explosion of a massive star heavier than 150 suns that blew up and left nothing behind.

The reason for the Titanian season

Tags: Astronomy

There may be many more lakes around Titan's north pole than the south pole because of Titan's seasons and the moon's elliptic orbit around Saturn.

hey, where are those galaxy clusters going?

Tags: Astronomy

Further analysis with the WMAP data suggests that the cosmological dark flow is real.

Oceans can’t keep up with human emissions

Oceans are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere like they used to.

Astronomers spot ticking supernova time bomb

Tags: Astronomy

Astronomers have spotted a potential Type Ia supernova in our own galaxy.

First Collisions in the LHC!

Tags: Physics

The Large Hadron Collider has circulated two counter-rotating beams, and the CMS experiment recorded its first collision event.

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