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Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.In celebration of happy accidents and enlightening errors, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013). These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures.Below are Livio's choices for the most brilliant scientific blunders. [ Oops! 5 Retracted Science Studies ]Darwin's notion of heredity Charles Darwin achieved an amazing feat when he came up with his theory of natural selection in 1859."Darwin was an incredible genius," Livio told LiveScience. "His idea of evolution by natural selection is just mind-boggli...
LONG BEACH, Calif. — NASA's 23-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong, and agency officials said Tuesday (Jan. 8) they plan to operate it until its in...
Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that ...
A new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows two star clusters that appear to be in the early stages of merging.The colliding clusters are 170,000 light-year...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of three odd galaxies that may help scientists solve a 13 billion-year cosmic mystery.The galaxies are so old and fain...
An enormous alien planet that some astronomers thought was dead and buried has come back to life, a new study suggests.A new analysis of observations from NASA's Hub...
A surprising number of massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy are part of close stellar duos, a new study finds, but most of these companion stars have turbulent rela...
A faraway galaxy's core is the largest ever seen, and it may have been puffed up by the merger of two black holes, a new study reports.The core of the elliptical gal...
One of the most challenging parts of NASA's huge new space telescope, the building of its ultrasophisticated mirror system, is now finished, and the mirrors are read...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of three odd galaxies that may help scientists solve a 13 billion-year cosmic mystery.The galaxies are so old and fain...
A new study has pinned down the age of the Milky Way's outer reaches with unprecedented precision, shedding light on how our galaxy and others across the universe ca...
A new celestial wonder has stolen the title of most distant object ever seen in the universe, astronomers report.The new record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD , wh...
Asteroid belts similar to the one between Mars and Jupiter appear to be rare beyond our solar system, implying that complex alien life may be rare as well, a new stu...
The operators of the Hubble Space Telescope say the orbiting observatory has snapped photos of an approaching comet.The Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Insti...
Astronomers have spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind, a supernova that could help scientists better understand the nature of the universe.Usi...
Earth probably formed in a hotter, drier part of the solar system than previously thought, which could explain our planet's puzzling shortage of water, a new study r...
Steven Muller, who led Johns Hopkins University during a period of tremendous growth and also served as president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital for a decade, died Sa...
LONG BEACH, Calif. — A possible alien planet discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope is the most Earth-like world yet detected beyond our solar system, scientist...
Astronomers have spotted seven galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the universe's birth, including one that may be the oldest found to date....
The Hubble Space Telescope's iconic "Deep Field" photo wowed the world in 1996 by revealing a huge collection of galaxies hiding inside a patch of the sky that looke...
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