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NASA: Citizen scientists spot Jupiter-like planet using data - KRQE

19 January 2022

NASA reports that using computer algorithms, professional astronomers search for multiple transit events from a single star which makes the work of ... [...]

Golden Gate Bridge sized asteroid, 1994PC1, has scientists, astronomers looking to the skies

19 January 2022

A real-life asteroid is flying by Earth and scientists and astronomers are watching it closely. Unistellar Chief Scientific Officer Franck Marchis ... [...]

Astronomers shed new light on birth of stars and galaxies - Particle

19 January 2022

A star is born – but how? Astronomers are unravelling the mysteries of how clouds of gas ignite to become stars and form spiral galaxies. [...]

SpaceX Satellites Have Invaded Astronomers' Views of The Sky, And It's Getting Worse

19 January 2022

They have become notorious for creating bright streaks in astronomical images. But Starlink will soon be followed by other projects, such as OneWeb ... [...]

Astronomers Want to Build a Neutrino Telescope. Using the Pacific Ocean? - Interesting Engineering

19 January 2022

Scientists plan to build a small-scale demo for the enormous neutrino detector! And if it works, we may take cosmic research to unprecedented ... [...]

Huge asteroid safely passes close to Earth - ABC13 Houston

19 January 2022

... to avoid turning into a sci-fi disaster movie, according to astronomers. ... came around .01325 Astronomical Units, or 1.2 million miles, ... [...]

Korea's NGII joins the East Asian VLBI Network

19 January 2022

The National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) has joined an East Asian consortium of astronomical institutions to connect 22 radio ... [...]

Astronomers shed new light on birth of stars and galaxies - Particle

19 January 2022

Astronomers are unravelling the mysteries of how clouds of gas ignite to become ... and International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). [...]

Einstein is at least 99.99percent correct, according to the Radio Pulsar Binary. - Brinkwire

18 January 2022

An international team of astronomers led by Michael Kramer of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, ... [...]

Radio Pulsar Binary Proves Einstein at Least 99.99% Right - SciTechDaily

18 January 2022

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. More than a hundred years have passed since Einstein formalized his theory of General Relativity ... [...]

Why we need the James Webb Space Telescope AND the SKA - Daily Maverick

18 January 2022

The spectrum ranges from radio waves and microwaves to infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, and X-rays, to gamma-rays. Both telescopes operate ... [...]

Space fire. Scientists get new images of the Flame Nebula (photo) - The Saxon

18 January 2022

Astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder radio telescope Experiment (APEX), which is located in Chile, was able to take a fresh look at the region ... [...]

Carnegie Mellon-led research team selected to | EurekAlert!

19 January 2022

... in the Robotics Institute at CMU's School of Computer Science. ... Fierro's research includes advanced robotic manipulation for space ... [...]

Chinese Scientists Build 'Artificial Moon' to Test Lunar Exploration Equipment on Earth ...

19 January 2022

The race for space exploration is heating up with major powers focussing on having a base on the Moon, to help operate beyond the International ... [...]

CU Boulder aerospace PhD student working on James Webb Space Telescope | Ann and ...

19 January 2022

This is a 24/7, several-month process of deploying the mirrors and aligning the telescope optics for science data collection. Half of our team at Ball ... [...]

Space Station Crew Gets Ready for Spacewalk and Dragon Departure - SciTechDaily

19 January 2022

Once aboard the orbiting laboratory, the four-person Axiom Space crew will conduct science, outreach, and commercial activities for eight days before ... [...]

NASA's Curiosity rover's latest findings could be the evidence of life on Mars | Business Insider India

19 January 2022

The study is going to continue and scientists will now see if a similar carbon signature is present in other sites of Mars that are known to have well ... [...]

Rocket Lab acquires SolAero Holdings for $80M to boost space solar cell production - Yahoo News

19 January 2022

Rocket Lab is on a mission to vertically integrate space solutions. ... For years, scientists have been trying to discover the cause of space ... [...]

A huge project is underway to sequence the genome of every complex species on Earth ...

19 January 2022

It will be exciting, too, to explore the dark matter of the genome, and reveal how DNA sequences that dont encode proteins can still play a role ... [...]

Motion of Stars Holds Clue to Dark Matter Shape in Far Away Galaxies - News18

19 January 2022

Dark matter forms the skeleton on which galaxies form, evolve, and merge. Out of plane bending of the bar in 'barred galaxies' or central ... [...]

Aussie scientist charts progress of global biology project - Big News Network.com

19 January 2022

Graves also said it would also be exciting to explore the "dark matter" of the genome, and "reveal how DNA sequences that don't encode proteins ... [...]

This is the most detailed 3D map of the universe ever made, and it's mesmerizing - BGR

18 January 2022

Furthermore, this will provide more information about dark matter and how it helps the formation of galaxies. Scientists will have a better ... [...]

Astronomers Want to Build a Neutrino Telescope. Using the Pacific Ocean? - Interesting Engineering

18 January 2022

One of the most mysterious particles in the universe are neutrinos, with only dark matter out-baffling scientists as a more puzzling phenomenon. [...]

Star Motion Clue To Dark Matter Shape, Key To Galaxies' Evolution | Bengaluru News ...

18 January 2022

Scientists investigating how the shape of dark matter halo affects the motion of stars in stellar bars (found at the centre of some galaxies) have ... [...]