Space
We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Space
Messenger from Mercury
NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Alien extreme weather, nature vs. nurture in stars and more in this week’s news.
- Physics
Neutrinos seen to fly faster than light
Though few physicists expect it to withstand scrutiny, confirmation of the observation would shake physics to its core.
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- Space
Atom & Cosmos
The source of the Milky Way’s spirals, a new way to spot gravitational waves and more in this week’s news.
- Space
On Kepler-16b, shadows come in pairs
Astronomers discover a planet that orbits a pair of stars.
- Space
Planet search finds lots of little guys
The latest collection of extrasolar bodies to be revealed is rich in worlds not much bigger than Earth.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Black holes could make the sun jiggle, nanodiamonds' origin and more in this week's news.
- Space
Hints of dark matter reported, again
European experiment sees some evidence for a heretofore unseen component of the universe.
- Space
Super-Earths may come in two flavors
As more exoplanets are discovered, evidence emerges that worlds can be either fluffy or dense.
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- Astronomy
Star goes boom, telescopes zoom
Astronomers have spotted a supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, the nearest such stellar explosion in decades.
