Invisible Dark Matter May Create Habitable Zones for Life & 6 new articles... China's Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) announced Thursday that the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has been monitoring signals from a previously unknown "dark" satellite in orbit around Saturn... |
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image above shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. A new study suggests that mysterious, invisible dark matter... |
The MESSENGER spacecraft, launched on its 5 billion-mile mission in 2004, begins its science operations above the surface of Mercury this week. On Wednesday, NASA released the first pictures taken by its Mercury Messenger spacecraft since entering the planet’s orbit... |
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After two years in orbit, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is nearing the end of its planned life span in February, producing the most accurate map ever of the so-called geoid --... |
Scientists have been able to validate the 2,000 year-old age of deep-sea black corals, most only two feet tall, in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time. These slow-growing, long-living animals thrive in very deep waters, yet, oddly, scientists... |