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Most Energetic Light Ever Observed from a Few Kilometers Large Star

Jan. 12, 2016 — Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever ... read more

Astronomers Find New Way to Measure the Pull of Gravity at the Surface of Distant Stars

Jan. 4, 2016 — Researchers have found a new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of a star. For distant stars with planets ... read more

Discovering a Previously Unknown Mechanism That Halts Solar Eruptions Before They Blast Into Space

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Auroral Mystery Solved: Sudden Bursts Caused by Swirling Charged Particles

Dec. 21, 2015 — A supercomputer model revealed that the rotation of plasma creates electrical currents in the near-Earth space, ultimately triggering auroral breakups. This overthrows ... read more

Magnetic Reconnection: Magnetic Explosions in Northern Lights and Solar Flares

Dec. 18, 2015 — Just under four months into the science phase of the mission, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, is delivering ... read more

Black Holes Could Grow as Large as 50 Billion Suns Before Their Food Crumbles Into Stars, Research Shows

Dec. 18, 2015 — Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they ... read more

NASA Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star

Dec. 12, 2015 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA's Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The dark storm is akin to ... read more

Origin of Heavy Elements in the Universe Uncovered

Dec. 8, 2015 — A team of scientists suggests a solution to the Galactic radioactive plutonium puzzle. All the Plutonium used on Earth is artificially produced in nuclear reactors. Still, it turns out that it is ... read more

LISA Pathfinder Carries Advanced NASA Thruster Tech

Dec. 6, 2015 — The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is on its way to space, having successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana (Dec. 3 local time/Dec. 2 PST). On board is the ... read more

VLA Yields New Insights on Solar Flares

Dec. 3, 2015 — Observations with the upgraded VLA radio telescope provide strong support for a proposed mechanism by which solar flares accelerate particles to nearly the speed ... read more

X-Ray Probe Spots Tiny Flares Heating The Sun

Supermassive Blackhole Detector Ready for Business

People in Northern France Seek Glimpse of Eclipse

Timelapse Captures Eclipse Over Faroes

Plunging Into the Ionosphere: Satellite's Last Days Improve Orbital Decay Predictions

Dec. 15, 2015 — The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere during a planned reentry on Nov. 28, 2015 leaving behind a treasure trove of data about ... read more

How Water Escapes from Saturn: Magnetic Reconnection

Dec. 3, 2015 — Researchers have discovered how water ions escape from Saturn's environment. Water ions find a place to exhaust out of the magnetosphere at a reconnection point -- basically where magnetic ... read more

Superflare: Sun Could Release Flares 1000x Greater Than Previously Recorded

Dec. 3, 2015 — The Sun demonstrates the potential to superflare, new research into stellar flaring suggests. New research has found a stellar superflare on a star observed by NASA's Kepler space telescope with ... read more

Exiled Exoplanet Likely Kicked out of Star's Neighborhood

Dec. 1, 2015 — The Gemini Planet Imager and the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed details of an unusual exoplanet and its star that suggest the planetary system underwent a violent episode in its early history ... read more

Explosive Energy in Saturn's Magnetic Bubble

Dec. 1, 2015 — Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn's magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini ... read more

Unexpected Activity on the Moon

Nov. 30, 2015 — The lunar space environment is much more active than previously assumed. The solar wind is reflected from the surface and crustal magnetic fields of the moon which has effects on for instance lunar ... read more

The Hottest White Dwarf in the Galaxy

Nov. 24, 2015 — Astronomers have identified a dying star and intergalactic gas entering the Milky ... read more

Cool, Dim Dwarf Star Is Magnetic Powerhouse

Nov. 19, 2015 — Astronomers have discovered that a dim, cool dwarf star is generating a surprisingly powerful magnetic ... read more

Radiation Blasts Leave Most Earth-Like Planet Uninhabitable

Nov. 18, 2015 — The most Earth-like planet could have been made uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation.The atmosphere of the planet, Kepler-438b, is thought to have been stripped away as a result of radiation ... read more

Milestone in Predicting Solar Flares

Nov. 16, 2015 — Astronomers have devised a high-precision method of examining magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere, representing a significant leap forward in the investigation of solar flares and potentially ... read more

Lasers Could Rapidly Make Materials Hotter Than the Sun

Nov. 13, 2015 — Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new ... read more

5400mph Winds Discovered Hurtling Around Planet Outside Solar System

Nov. 13, 2015 — Winds of over 2km per second have been discovered flowing around planet outside of the Earth's solar system, new research has ... read more

Astronomers Eager to Get a Whiff of Newfound Venus-Like Planet

Nov. 11, 2015 — The collection of rocky planets orbiting distant stars has just grown by one, and the latest discovery is the most intriguing one to date. The newfound world, although hot as an oven, is cool enough ... read more

Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star's Glowing Ring System

Nov. 11, 2015 — The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.Comprised of dust particles and debris, the rings are ... read more

Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke

Nov. 10, 2015 — The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet's tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a ... read more

Simpler Way to Define What Makes a Planet

Nov. 10, 2015 — A professor of planetary astronomy has described a simple 'planet test' that can be readily applied to bodies orbiting the sun and other stars. According to this new test, all eight solar ... read more

NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere

Nov. 5, 2015 — NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and ... read more

Distant World's Weather Is Mixed Bag of Hot Dust, Molten Rain

Nov. 3, 2015 — Weather patterns in a mysterious world beyond our solar system have been revealed for the first time, report scientists. Layers of clouds, made up of hot dust and droplets of molten iron, have been ... read more

Jupiter Bumped Giant Planet from Our Solar System

Oct. 29, 2015 — It's like something out of an interplanetary chess game. Astrophysicists have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four billion years ago may have resulted in another planet's ... read more

Surprising Discovery of Oxygen in Comet's Atmosphere

Oct. 29, 2015 — The biggest surprise so far in the chemical analysis of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko's atmosphere is the high proportion of oxygen molecules. While such molecules are common in the earth's ... read more

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