Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept that the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth of a second at the outset of the big bang - NASA
For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in weighing a binary pair of brown dwarfs and precisely measuring their diameters. These kinds of exact measurements are not possible when observing a single brown dwarf - Space Telescope Science Institute
Samples from comet Wild 2 have surprised scientists, indicating the formation of at least some comets may have included materials ejected by the early sun to the far reaches of the solar system - NASA
A chilly “super-Earth” has been spotted in the outskirts of a planetary system 9000 light years away. It is the second known planet of its kind, and suggests these cool worlds are astonishingly common - New Scientist
Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope - University of California Los Angeles
Evidence from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests Neptune's Triton may not be the only satellite with cryovolcanism. Saturn's moon Titan may be cryovlocanic as well - Astronomy
Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA’s gamma-ray observatory Integral - ESA
Where there's smoke, there's fire - even in outer space. A new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a burning hot galaxy whose fiery stars appear to be blowing out giant billows of smoky dust - NASA/JPL
NASA astronauts are going back to the moon and when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. The moon is shaking with "shallow moonquakes" that researchers don't fully understand - Science @ NASA
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