Shrinking sky has scientists baffled
Scientists are left mulling over why part of the Earth's atmosphere recently suffered its biggest collapse since records began, and is only now starting to rebound.
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Powerful cosmic blast blinds telescope
A burst of x-rays that temporarily blinded a NASA satellite last month was the most powerful blast ever recorded, leaving astronomers mystified about its origin.
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Messenger unlocks Mercurian secrets
The new analysis of data from the planet Mercury has surprised scientists by showing it has a far younger volcanic history than previously thought.
The data was collec
Big baby star spotted in dusty womb
Scientists have taken a picture of a huge baby star cocooned in a disk of dust, the first observational evidence in a debate about star formation.
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Long odds of finding ET, say researchers
The odds of successfully eavesdropping on the daily radio traffic of extraterrestrial life forms have been calculated by a pair of UK scientists to be astronomically small.
Umbraphiles head to South Pacific
Astronomers are this weekend preparing for one of nature's most spectacular astronomical events - a total eclipse of the Sun.
But unlike last year's eclipse, which was
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