As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so too do super massive black holes in different galaxies, gorge on smaller black holes and stars, making themselves more massive in the process. A giant black hole has been caught red-handed..
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NASA's plans for returning people to the moon is now getting its shape but referring NASA's plans as just returning people to the moon won't be enough. The reasons for returning people to the moon after so many years are now getting extremely strong....
A huge number of molecules have been discovered in the interstellar medium, most of them in the dense molecular clouds. Astronomers have discovered the first negatively charged molecule in space, identifying it from radio signals that were a mystery..
Images from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope won't be the same though there's still a repair mission to Hubble but sooner or later the greatest scientific instrument of all time will go blind. However, nothing could match Hubble's perfection and...
When your home is an aluminum spacecraft in Earth orbit - hundreds of miles from the nearest fire station - saturating a potential fire early and fast can be a lifesaver.
What if the International Space Station (ISS) catches fire, surely the...
Scientists and science-fiction authors have long dreamed of turning Mars into a more Earth-like planet for future human colonists. Now the scientists are investigating the possibility of "terraforming" just a small patch of the planet's surface by...
Over the years, amateur astronomers have seen puffs or flares of light coming from the moon's surface. Although most professional observers have upheld the conclusion that the moon was dormant, such sightings have kept open a window of doubt.
Now,...
The only moon in our solar system with its own atmosphere, it will surely grab scientist's attention. Here, it is providing significant clues to support the nature of Earth's atmosphere billions of years ago when Earth may have been covered in a...
The Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan has witnesses the lift-off of a rocket carrying a satellite space telescope Tuesday. After a 48-hour delay caused by heavy rain, the M-5 rocket blasted off at 0628 local time (2128 GMT Tuesday). Astro-F will orbit the..
They resembled crushed glass. It is a rare population of colliding galaxies with pieces wrapped in tiny crystals. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed it. The crystals are essentially glass-like sand, or silicate, grains. It is for the first time..
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