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Young, nearby supernova dazzles scientists

The discovery, announced on Wednesday, was made in what was believed to be the first hours of the rare cosmic explosion using a special telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego and powerful supercomputers at a government labora [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Scientists discover the diamond planet

SCIENTISTS have discovered a planet they believe is made of diamond. The international team, which includes Australian scientists, believes the "diamond planet" is the only remnant left from what was a huge star in our own Milky [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Scientists in a Spin Over Exoplanet Orbits

The discovery of nine new exoplanets - planets outside of our own solar system - has led to findings that experts say turn accepted planetary theory on its head. Astronomers studying the movements of planets orbiting neighboring star [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

First image of star's eclipse captured by scientists

Astronomers at the University of St Andrews worked on an international study of the star Epsilon Aurigae, from the Auriga constellation. Every 27 years it becomes dimmer, a phenomenon which lasts for two years. The physicists combin [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Scientists gets a look at Mercury's interior

Meteors that smashed into the planet Mercury 3.9 billion years ago are giving scientists a glimpse deep into the tiny planet's interior and providing clues to how it has evolved in the eons since. The 430-mile-wide Rembrandt impact basin, f [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Scientists discover new planet outside solar system

Scientists in Germany have discovered what is believed to be the youngest planet outside the solar system, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics announced on Wednesday. The giant young planet, called TW Hydrae b, "is still linked [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Where should scientists look for life on Mars?

Could anything survive the extreme conditions of Mars? That’s the question posed by astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University. He and a student took two hardy microbes from Earth and subjected them to low pre [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Scientists Provide First Public Peek At Gravity Probe B Resu...

For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct. Recently, at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting i [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Scientists Find A Solar-powered Asteroid

For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before. The international team of scientists used an armada of tel [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2007 | Comments : 0

Scientists C which Jupiter Moon will reveal the most

Planetary Scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system, the community suffers from an embarrassment of riches, because each of the moons of Jupiter differs in the way that they can reveal more abo [...]