24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
..., gamma-ray bursts and the debris of supernova explosions. Finds that are part of the 3,000 new discoveries clocked up by Fermi since its launch; that is 10 times the number known before the mission started. “For...
28 November 2018
A hidden giant found lurking close to the Milky Way
... Milky Way has been spotted by astronomers searching through data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft and its discovery could be the tip of the iceberg, with many more similar-type galaxies waiting to be found say the...
21 December 2017
How overpopulation changes the perception of value
...of currency, most likely data. They will have to earn it through work or exchanging information. Companies that specialize in e discovery will become a vital part of maintaining the integrity of data storage and recovery, perhaps operating like banks...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
... the proverbial needle in a haystack: only one star in a thousand may be circling a black hole. After the initial discovery, the world's largest optical telescopes - Spain's 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 10-m Keck I telescope in the United...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... forward with the work to validate this as a planetary discovery. Kepler does not see planets directly. Instead, the analysis...we have. Rocky path to rocky planets No one expected the discovery of Earth-sized worlds to be easy but it has proved even...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... of extraordinary service that not only saw the discovery of 2,600+ planets from outside our Solar ...continued to gather data and some of the most recent analyses of its discoveries concludes that 20 to 50 percent of the stars visible in the night ...
