Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space

An international team, led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body ever found outside our own solar system. Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, a discovery has been made of an object which is technically known as a brown dwarf.

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Obama Budget Ends Return-To-Moon Plan

President Barack Obama is essentially grounding plans to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in new directions with roughly $6 billion more.

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Student-built Rubiks Cube Satellite Selected for NASA Flight

A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative.

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Moon May Have Formed in a Nuclear Explosion, Scientists Say

(PhysOrg.com) — A new theory suggests the Moon was formed after a natural nuclear explosion in the Earth’s mantle rather than after the impact of a massive object with the Earth, as previously thought.

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Rome’s Ancient Aqueduct Found

The long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city.

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Scientists Discover a New Form of Lightning

The lightning observed during the eruption of Mt. Redoubt in 2009, researchers have determined, is an entirely new variety. Using radio antennas, scientists noticed that the bolts were shorter, lasting only a few milliseconds, and much more frequent than typical lightning.

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New ‘Destroyer’ Dinosaur Found

Bistahieversor sealeyi, a 29-foot-long (9-meter-long) “destroyer” dinosaur once reigned over the Wild West, according to a new study of a fossil T.Rex relative found in New Mexico.

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Why Molecules Favor Complex Geometric Patterns

Scientists have discovered new clues to how and why groups of atoms and molecules may favor less symmetrical and more complex, flexible geometric patterns. The answer relates to a familiar concept in physics — entropy. The researchers literally first caught sight of the link by using magnetic stick and ball construction toys.

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Peering inside an artificial sun

Techniques developed by MIT center provide detailed images from the inside of hellishly hot core of advanced fusion experiments

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Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle

An expedition to the Gobi Desert has enabled researchers to solve the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds independent of birds. Until now, there was no direct evidence that dinosaurs of the Alvarezsauridae family lived during the Late Jurassic, approximately 160 million years ago.

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