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9:46pm, 31st July, 2019

TESS probe helps scientists find potentially habitable planet, 31 light-years away

An artist’s conception depicts GJ 357 d orbiting its host star. (Cornell University Illustration / Jack Madden) Astronomers are sharing a flood of findings from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, including the detection of a poten...

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

10:50am, 10th April, 2019

Space

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

This image from the Event Horizon Telescope shows the supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87, surrounded by superheated material. (EHT Collaboration) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists today shared the first picture to show the immediate sur...

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

8:42am, 10th April, 2019

Space

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

This image from the Event Horizon Telescope shows the supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87, surrounded by superheated material. (EHT Collaboration) WASHINGTON — Scientists shared the first picture to show the immediate surroundings of...

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

10:03pm, 9th April, 2019

Space

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

A computer simulation shows the expected appearance of the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, as seen in radio wavelengths. The left side of the image is brighter than the right side due to the Doppler beaming effect: Light emitted from materia...

Sweet! Scientists narrow down source of mysterious burst of methane on Mars

1:51pm, 1st April, 2019

Space

Sweet! Scientists narrow down source of mysterious burst of methane on Mars

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, shown in this artist’s conception, has been circling Mars since 2003. (Spacecraft image credit: ESA / ATG Medialab; Mars: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) It may sound like an April Fool’s jok...

Scientists report a super-Earth in orbit around Barnard’s Star, just 6 light-years away

4:31pm, 14th November, 2018

Space

Scientists report a super-Earth in orbit around Barnard’s Star, just 6 light-years away

An artist’s conception shows what the surface of the reported planet known as Barnard’s Star b might look like. (ESO Illustration / M. Kornmesser) The astronomical team that found the nearest exoplanet at Proxima Centauri has done it again with the r...

Scientists come up with revised ‘Rio scale’ to rate claims of extraterrestrial contact

9:57pm, 24th July, 2018

Space

Scientists come up with revised ‘Rio scale’ to rate claims of extraterrestrial contact

SETI pioneer Jill Tarter pays a visit to the Allen Telescope Array in California, one of the prime sites for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. (Credit: SETI Institute) For almost 60 years, efforts to pick up signs of extraterrestrial civi...

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TESS probe helps scientists find potentially habitable planet, 31 light-years away

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Sweet! Scientists narrow down source of mysterious burst of methane on Mars

Scientists report a super-Earth in orbit around Barnard’s Star, just 6 light-years away

Scientists come up with revised ‘Rio scale’ to rate claims of extraterrestrial contact

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