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April 18, 2024
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Apr. 16, 2024 — Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it imposes an odd 'wobbling' motion on the companion ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. The team is the first to successfully reproduce the unusual shape with numerical simulations, attributing ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the mass loss rate of the stars via their stellar ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ocean. The process left behind a vestige of dense, ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new method using knot theory to find the optimal routes for future space missions without the need to waste ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — In an approach they call 'nanostitching,' engineers used carbon nanotubes to prevent cracking in multilayered composites. The advance could lead to next-generation airplanes and ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — In 2022, astronomers discovered the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) of all time. Now, astronomers confirm that a 'normal' supernova, the telltale ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Research has uncovered important new insights into the evolution of oxygen, carbon, and other vital elements over the entire history of Earth -- and ...
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Apr. 8, 2024 — Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar -- the Universe's most powerful magnets -- has revealed an unexpectedly complex ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar course to that of ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — The CHEOPS space telescope is providing new information on the mysterious exoplanet WASP-76b. This ultra-hot giant is characterized by an asymmetry between the amount of light observed on its eastern ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...
Apr. 4, 2024 — Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...
Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy ...
Apr. 2, 2024 — One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — New research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution processes, in a galaxy where stars are forming much more ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Researchers found that the double-lobed object, which is officially named Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth and resembles a snowman, may have ancient ices stored deep within it from when the object ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists captured images showing the development of turbulence as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the distribution of elements needed for life. The jets of matter, expelled by stars deemed 'cosmic ...
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Antarctic Meteorites
- Telescope Detects Unprecedented Behavior from Nearby Magnetar
- Inexplicable Flying Fox Found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
- Astronomy: How Do Brown Dwarfs Form?
- CHEOPS Detects a 'rainbow' On an Exoplanet
- Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Stellar Collisions Produce Strange, Zombie-Like Survivors
- First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Long-Period Oscillations Control the Sun's Differential Rotation
- Astronomers Conduct First Search for Forming Planets With New Space Telescope
- Persistent Hiccups in a Far-Off Galaxy Draw Astronomers to New Black Hole Behavior
- Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- Distant 'space Snowman' Unlocks Mystery of How Some Dormant Deep Space Objects Become 'ice Bombs'
- Turbulence Within Solar Transients Imaged
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Sleeping Supermassive Black Holes Awakened Briefly by Shredded Stars
- Tiniest 'starquake' Ever Detected
- Scientists on the Hunt for Evidence of Quantum Gravity's Existence at the South Pole
Monday, March 25, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Signs of Life Would Be Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons
- James Webb Space Telescope Captures the End of Planet Formation
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Two of the Milky Way's Earliest Building Blocks Identified
- Secrets of the Van Allen Belt Revealed in New Study
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery
- Icy Impacts: Planetary Scientists Use Physics and Images of Impact Craters to Gauge the Thickness of Ice on Europa
- Scientists Find One of the Most Ancient Stars That Formed in Another Galaxy
- Quantum Tornado Provides Gateway to Understanding Black Holes
- Pioneering Muscle Monitoring in Space to Help Astronauts Stay Strong in Low-Gravity
- Astrophysicist's Research Could Provide a Hint in the Search for Dark Matter
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
- New Research Suggests That Our Universe Has No Dark Matter
- Protein Fragments ID Two New 'extremophile' Microbes--and May Help Find Alien Life
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Surprising Insights About Debris Flows on Mars
- Ancient Ice May Still Exist in Distant Space Objects, Researchers Find
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- AI for Astrophysics: Algorithms Help Chart the Origins of Heavy Elements
- Cheers! NASA's Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
- Do Astronauts Experience 'space Headaches'?
- Explaining a Supernova's 'string of Pearls'
- Giant Volcano Discovered on Mars
- Satellites for Quantum Communications
- Study Brings Scientists a Step Closer to Successfully Growing Plants in Space
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Scientists Propose New Theory That Explains Sand Ripples on Mars and on Earth
- Ultrablack Coating Could Make Next-Gen Telescopes Even Better
Monday, March 11, 2024
- Giving Particle Detectors a Boost
- Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 With NASA's Webb
- Nasa’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Friday, March 8, 2024
- Pushing the Boundary on Ultralow Frequency Gravitational Waves
- CSI in Space: Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns in Microgravity
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- Interstellar Signal Linked to Aliens Was Actually Just a Truck
- Baby Quasars: Growing Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars
- Astronomers Spot Oldest 'dead' Galaxy Yet Observed
- Discovery Tests Theory on Cooling of White Dwarf Stars
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth Around Dozens of Stars
- What Makes Black Holes Grow and New Stars Form? Machine Learning Helps Solve the Mystery
- Juno Spacecraft Measures Oxygen Production on Jupiter's Moon, Europa
Monday, March 4, 2024
- JWST Captures the End of Planet Formation
- Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen
- Study Determines the Original Orientations of Rocks Drilled on Mars
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed
- Ultraviolet Radiation from Massive Stars Shapes Planetary Systems
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Ice Shell Thickness Reveals Water Temperature on Ocean Worlds
- Astronomers Measure Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Found
- Astronomers Reveal a New Link Between Water and Planet Formation
- Astronomers Discover Heavy Elements After Bright Gamma-Ray Burst from Neutron Star Merger
- Could Fiber Optic Cable Help Scientists Probe the Deep Layers of the Moon?
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- 'Cosmic Lighthouses' That Cleared Primordial Fog Identified With JWST
- Biomolecules from Formaldehyde on Ancient Mars
Monday, February 26, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- A New Beginning: The Search for More Temperate Tatooines
- Brightest and Fastest-Growing: Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
- Three Years Later, Search for Life on Mars Continues
- New Realistic Computer Model Will Help Robots Collect Moon Dust
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Little Groundwater Recharge in Ancient Mars Aquifer, According to New Models
- Black Hole at Center of the Milky Way Resembles a Football
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Spy-Satellite Images Offer Insights Into Historical Ecosystem Changes
- Astronomers Report Oscillation of Our Giant, Gaseous Neighbor
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- New Nuclei Can Help Shape Our Understanding of Fundamental Science on Earth and in the Cosmos
- Evidence of Geothermal Activity Within Icy Dwarf Planets
- Diverse Ancient Volcanoes on Mars Discovered by Planetary Scientist May Hold Clues to Pre-Plate Tectonic Activity on Earth
- A Star Like a Matryoshka Doll: New Theory for Gravastars
Friday, February 9, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Mimas' Surprise: Tiny Moon of Saturn Holds Young Ocean Beneath Icy Shell
- Astrophysicists Crack the Case of 'disappearing' Sulphur in Planetary Nebulae
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- A Long, Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Not So Far Away
- Newly Discovered Carbon Monoxide-Runaway Gap Can Help Identify Habitable Exoplanets
- Understanding the Moon's History With Chang'e-5 Sample
- Which Came First: Black Holes or Galaxies?