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Galileo Galilei's two fingers and a tooth have been found in an ancient wooden case by a collector who spotted the discarded case at an auction .

If there were a Guinness record for making telescope mirrors, Dean Ketelsen probably would win it.

Worlds most energy-efficient supercomputer recognized The high-performance computer QPACE has been recognized as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected bursts of gamma-rays in the binary system Cygnus X-3, which astronomers say are coming from a microquasar.

ANI ANI Universe peppered with blue fuzzies, discover astronomers Australian astronomers have discovered that the universe is peppered with tiny blue dwarf galaxies known as blue fuzzies.

The fossilised remains of Martian bugs have been discovered on a meteorite that crashed into the Antarctic 13,000 years ago.

Back in my college days, I took an introductory class in 20th-century quantum physics and its modern-day philosophical implications, sometimes deridingly referred to as "Physics for Poets." In order to make the materials marginally more approachable, the professor would draw liberally from the Klingons of "Star Trek" fame to make his points.

Dr Alun Salt, an astronomy technician from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at the University of Leicester, found that out of all the temples he surveyed in Sicily, all but three faced the rising sun.

Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the central bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an extraordinary cosmic relic.

This is CCTV footage of the meteor spotted in Gauteng on November 21, 2009, after 11pm, according to Eyewitness News.

Planetarium seeks meteor footage The Johannesburg Planetarium has requested footage captured by members of the public of a meteor that sped over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Botswana on Saturday.

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The formation process involved two stages, said Mitchell Begelman, a professor and the chair of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

Brown dwarfs are misfits because they fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

ANI ANI ANI Now, web users can play cosmic slot machine to study colliding galaxies A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a cosmic slot machine and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic pile-ups. Washington, November 24 : A new website will give everyone the ...

Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University in Nanjing, China - Solar coronal seismology based on magnetic field-line stretching model of "EIT waves" is proposed, which is demonstrated to be potentially able to probe the mysterious magnetic field in the solar corona.

The Vatican recently held a "study week" of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials.

A carefully nuanced program intended to exert pressure on the unelected government of the United States to disclose the presence of non-human entities and technology operating in Earth's biosphere took another step forward at the conclusion of a 5 day Study Week on Astrobiology by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican last week.

Not everything in the universe twinkles brightly, and astronomers expect that NASA's next space telescope may find some of these dark cosmic bodies, including nearby asteroids and stars so dim that they've never been observed by humans.

With so many strides having been made in the last couple years in the field of animation , it feel a little bizarre to come face to face with a film that barely seems to be trying to break new ground.