— The Nobel Prize in chemistry is going to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath — [7 Oct] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel...
— The Nobel Prize in physics is going to Kao, Boyle and Smith — [6 Oct] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel...
— The Nobel in medicine is going to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak — [5 Oct] The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, has decided to award the...
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NGC 346 spans approximately 200 light-years, a region of space about fifty times the distance between the Sun and its nearest stellar neighbours. Astronomers classify NGC 346 as an open cluster of stars, indicating that this stellar brood all originated from the same collapsed cloud of matter. The associated nebula containing this clutch of bright stars is known as an emission nebula, meaning that gas within it has been heated up by stars until the gas emits its own light, just like the neon gas used in electric store signs... — full story
Cassini finds plethora of plumes, hotspots at EnceladusNewly released images from last November's swoop over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing... — full story
Enhanced 3D model of Mars crater edge shows ups and downsA dramatic 3D Mars view based on terrain modelling from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data shows 'highs and lows' of Mojave Crater. The vertical dimension is exaggerated three-fold... — full story
NASA's WISE mission releases medley of first imagesA diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Since WISE began its scan... — full story
Cassini shoots new close-ups of death star-like moonBlazing through its closest pass of the Saturnian moon Mimas on Feb. 13, Cassini sent back striking close-ups of the moon likened to the Death Star from 'Star Wars' and the enormous... — full story
Black hole hunters set new distance recordThe stellar-mass black holes found in the Milky Way weigh up to ten times the mass of the Sun and are certainly not be taken lightly, but, outside our own galaxy, they may just be minor-league... — full story
Astronomers find super-EarthAstronomers announced today that they have discovered a 'super-Earth' orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based... — full story