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Scientists Beam Energy Sans Wires Using Microwaves

By Peter R - Mar 16, 2015 07:00 AM EDT

The breakthrough is expected to pave way for solar energy transmission to Earth from space.

Milky Way Just Got Bigger by 50 Percent, Study

By Peter R - Mar 12, 2015 05:16 PM EDT

Analysis of data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey showed researchers our galaxy could be bigger than its currently known size.

Dark Matter Dictates Growth of Super Massive Black Holes

By Peter R - Feb 20, 2015 01:41 PM EST

A new study found the link between dark matter and black hole is stronger than the black hole-visible matter link.

"Interstellar" Movie May Have Accurately Portrayed Black Holes, Scientists

By Peter R - Feb 13, 2015 04:59 PM EST

Visual effects team of the movie has published a paper on their efforts to portray a black hole.

Last Year's Biggest Physics Discovery Falls Flat as Cosmologists Mistook Dust for Gravity

By Peter R - Feb 03, 2015 01:49 PM EST

The discovery of unique patterns attributed to primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background was actually caused by dust.

Scientists Remain Hopeful of Finding Lost Philae

By Peter R - Feb 02, 2015 11:32 AM EST

Philae went off radar after it landed on the comet last November.

Recipe for Habitable Planets Revealed in New Study

By Peter R - Jan 30, 2015 04:10 PM EST

A new study shows that two important space activities perpetuated by M dwarfs, tidal force and stellar activity, can turn Neptune-like planets into Earth-like planets.

Asteroid Makes a Safe Pass Past Earth, with a Moon in Tow

By Peter R - Jan 27, 2015 10:34 AM EST

Radar images from NASA show the asteroid 2004 BL86 flying past with an orbiting moon.

With the Power of Million Suns, Unusual Radio Burst from Deep Space Excite Astronomers

By Peter R - Jan 19, 2015 03:33 PM EST

Astronomers across the world are now glued to identifying the source behind the unusual radio burst that is said to have happened 5.5 billion light years.

Missing Spacecraft Beagle2 Found Parked on Mars After Vanishing for More Than a Decade

By Peter R - Jan 16, 2015 04:39 PM EST

A NASA team located the missing Mars lander from high resolution images taken by Mars Orbiter.

NASA To Partner With Nissan To Develop Self-Driving Cars For Space

By Kamal Nayan - Jan 10, 2015 09:14 AM EST

The US space agency, NASA will partner with automaker Nissan to build self-driving and zero-emission autonomous cars for space. Apparently they will start with self-driving cars for earth first.

Scientists Discover Planets Most Similar to Earth Yet

By Dustin M Braden - Jan 06, 2015 06:53 PM EST

Scientists have discovered 8 new exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars other than our sun, and two of these are the most similar to Earth of any planet found in deep space.

NASA Will Partner With Four Private Companies For Space Exploration Programs

By Kamal Nayan - Dec 26, 2014 12:45 AM EST

NASA will partner with four private firms in U.S. for new space exploration program which would eventually see American astronauts return to Moon and land on Mars.

European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft meets up with comet 67P after ten years

By Dustin M Braden - Aug 06, 2014 10:23 AM EDT

After traveling through the dark and cold of deep space for ten years and 4 billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has arrived at its destination, the comet 67P.

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