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Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Long distance relationship A distant planet thought to be floating free through space is not so lonely after all, according to a new study that indicates it actually orbits a star a trillion kilometres away from it.
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Pluto Young at Heart Pluto's heart shaped Sputnik Planum region is only ten million years old, far younger than the rest of the dwarf planet.
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Sticky feet If you have hopes of replicating Spiderman's ability to climb walls, a new study may crush your dreams.
Friday, 15 January 2016
Big blast Astronomers have detected the most powerful stellar explosion ever seen - - a massive supernova, twice as powerful as anything previously recorded.
Friday, 18 December 2015
Lunar mission The Moon's tenuous atmosphere changes depending on its exposure to the Sun and to meteor showers, astronomers have discovered.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Goldilocks planet Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far - a super-Earth located just 14 light years away.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast FINAL EPISODE: Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are giant salt pans. Also; climate change slowing the planet's rotation, and searching for the universe's missing matter.
Monday, 14 December 2015
Geminids meteor shower This year's Geminids meteor shower should provide a fittingly spectacular finale to 2015 the International Year of Light with an estimated 150 meteors an hour expected to light up the moonless night skies.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Mystery spots Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are giant salt pans caused by the evaporation of water - - possibly from a subsurface ocean - - according to data from the Dawn space mission.
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast Astronomers observe for the first time how the Sun acts as a powerful accelerator. Also: The LISA Pathfinder launches on its mission to test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and discovery of another possible dwarf planet out beyond Pluto.
Monday, 7 December 2015
Lightning FAQ There's nothing like a dramatic interplay of lightning and thunder for atmosphere and fear, but is it really true that lighting never strikes twice? And what does lightning have to do with volcanoes?
Friday, 4 December 2015
Solar flares For the first time scientists have seen how solar flares act as powerful accelerators, flinging particles into space at close to the speed of light in a matter of seconds.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
StarStuff Podcast A monster black hole rips apart a Sun-like star in a spectacular stellar feeding frenzy. Also; Earth's magnetic field isn't about to flip just yet, and the new model explaining how the Moon got its tilt.
Friday, 27 November 2015
Death of a star Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a star the size of our Sun being completely ripped apart and destroyed by a supermassive black hole over just a few weeks.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
How the Moon got its tilt Ancient planetary building blocks or planetesimals left over from the formation of the solar system flying close to the Moon, were enough to tilt the Moon's orbit.