Spaceship Two (credit: Virgin Galactic) At a joint press conference Monday with Virgin Galactic at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference,
Tides can render the so-called "habitable zone" around low-mass stars uninhabitable, according to new research. Until now, the two main drivers thought to determine a planet
Stars are balls of glowing gas, with a nearly spherical shape. Accordingly, one would expect that when some stars explode as supernovae at the end of their lives, the resulting colossal fireballs should share this spherical symmetry. However, recent investigations are revealing that some of these events are not round. New data gathered at Calar Alto Observatory reinforce this surprising finding.
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Editorial: The International Space Station may have cost us the earth, but it can give us the universe
