Topic: Astronomy
A landmark clinical trial that showed HIV drugs can be as effective as condoms in preventing transmission of the virus that causes AIDS was declared Science magazine's breakthrough of the year on Thursday.Other top achievements of 2011 included a Japanese spacecraft's return ...
The remains of two planets closely orbiting a dying star some 3,900 light years away have given astronomers a glimpse of what may happen at the demise of our own solar system about five billion years from now.Named KOI 55.01 and KOI ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system, a milestone in the search for planets like the earth, the space agency said on Tuesday.The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are ...
Europe's state-of-the-art Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Paranal, Chile has captured some of the most detailed images ever taken of a spiral galaxy, scientists said Friday.The Silver Coin Galaxy, known to scientists as NGC 253, gleams about 11.5 million light years away ...
CARNARVON, South Africa (Reuters) - The occasional sheep seeks respite from a sun that has scorched rocks black in this semi-desert region that South Africa hopes will host the world's most powerful radio telescope.Chosen because of its remoteness, with hills providing an ...
South Africa is well-placed to host the world's largest telescope because the costs would be lower, according to the deputy science minister.South Africa is competing with Australia to win the contract for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a multi-billion dollar" class="inform">dollar instrument ...
Researchers have sticky fingers when it comes to NASA's moon rocks and meteorites, and hundreds of samples have gone missing after being loaned out by the US space agency, an audit said Thursday.NASA Inspector General Paul Martin issued a report detailing foibles ...
MOFFET FIELD, California (Reuters) - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a ...
In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the first rocky exoplanet to meet key ...
Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a study published Monday.The two giants are located in the heart of a pair of galaxies several hundred million ...
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