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Every red dwarf star has at least one planet, says new study
Red dwarfs make up at least three quarters of the stars in the universe. A new study suggests that virtually all red dwarfs have planets orbiting them.
March 4, 2014
Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts
The streaks emanating from this galaxy are hot young stars, encased in wispy streams of gas torn away from the galaxy as it moves through space.
March 4, 2014
Did first Americans live thousands of years on Bering Land Bridge?
A flurry of studies suggests that this lost world could have been an ice age haven, dotted with game and wildflowers, for both animals and humans.
March 4, 2014
Great Lakes are mostly frozen
Ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes reached 88 percent in mid-February 2014, levels not observed since 1994.
February 27, 2014
Closest, brightest supernova in decades is also a little weird, say astronomers
Analysis of the supernova discovered last month is suggesting to Berkeley scientists that what we think of as ‘normal’ supernovae behavior is actually unusual.
February 27, 2014
Kepler confirms a whopping 715 new planets
Some of the new worlds are similar in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of their parent stars.
February 26, 2014
Dramatic photos of Venus disappearing behind the moon
Ravindra Aradhya in Bangalore, India caught these dramatic photos of the February 26 daytime occultation of the planet Venus by the moon.
February 26, 2014
View from space: The Koreas at night
In this ISS astronaut photo of the Korean Peninsula at night, North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China.
February 24, 2014
Discovery of one new butterfly species leads to another
Just when scientists thought that all butterfly species in the eastern U.S. were identified, researchers stumbled across not one, but two new species, right under their noses.
February 24, 2014
Dogs and humans use similar parts of brain to listen
The study, which compared fMRI brain scans of dogs and humans, showed that dogs respond most to sounds from other dogs, and humans to the voices of other humans.
February 24, 2014
