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June 7, 2024
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June 5, 2024 Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate -- slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to ...
June 5, 2024 A rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star's intense radiation somehow grew a puffy atmosphere instead -- the latest in a string of discoveries forcing ...
May 30, 2024 New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly packed ...
May 23, 2024 Astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years ...
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May 23, 2024 The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of ...
May 23, 2024 While thousands of planets have been discovered around other stars, relatively little is known about them. A NASA catalog featuring 126 exotic, newly discovered worlds includes detailed measurements ...
May 23, 2024 Astronomers have made the rare and tantalizing discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world. The potentially-habitable planet, named ...
May 21, 2024 University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. Their study of an ...
May 15, 2024 Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is ...
May 15, 2024 Astronomers have just discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an 'ultracool dwarf' star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our ...
May 14, 2024 Astronomers have just discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like ...
May 14, 2024 Astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way's ...
May 10, 2024 Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on Earth. The theory suggests a type of stellar explosion known as ONe novae as a ...
May 9, 2024 Astrophysicists discovered that an exoplanet is covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from a distance it would take on a fiery, glowing-red ...
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May 9, 2024 A recent study has discovered a novel method for detecting the first-generations stars, known as Population III (Pop III) stars, which have never been directly detected. These potential discoveries ...
Apr. 30, 2024 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Astronomers have confirmed that differences in binary stars' composition can originate from chemical variations in the cloud of stellar material from which they formed. The results help explain ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Researchers co-led a study that will improve the detection of gravitational waves--ripples in space and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. The findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. 5, 2024 New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar course to that of ...
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. 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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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- Beautiful Nebula, Violent History: Clash of Stars Solves Stellar Mystery
- Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'sneezes' Tell Us How You Are
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- Astronomers Conduct First Search for Forming Planets With New Space Telescope
- '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
Monday, March 25, 2024
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- 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
- 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
Monday, March 4, 2024
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- New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed
- Ultraviolet Radiation from Massive Stars Shapes Planetary Systems
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- A New Beginning: The Search for More Temperate Tatooines
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- Astronomers Unravel Mysteries of Planet Formation and Evolution in Distant Planetary System
- Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge
- 'Old Smokers' and 'squalling Newborns' Among Hidden Stars Spotted for First Time
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- Close Encounters of the Supermassive Black Hole Kind
- Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- Unlocking the Secrets of a 'Hot Saturn' And Its Spotted Star
Monday, January 8, 2024
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- Astronomers Detect Seismic Ripples in Ancient Galactic Disk
- New 1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Shows Running Chicken Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
Friday, December 15, 2023
- Scientists Measure the Distance to Stars by Their Music
- Astronomers Discover First Population of Binary Stripped Stars
- Reaching for the (Invisible) Stars
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- Unlocking Neutron Star Rotation Anomalies: Insights from Quantum Simulation
- Astronomers Determine the Age of Three Mysterious Baby Stars at the Heart of the Milky Way
Monday, December 4, 2023
- 10-Billion-Year, 50,000-Light-Year Journey to Black Hole
- Dark Galactic Region Nicknamed 'The Brick' Explained With Webb Telescope Findings
Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Discovery of Planet Too Big for Its Sun Throws Off Solar System Formation Models
- Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- An Astronomical Waltz Reveals a Sextuplet of Planets
- Building Blocks for Life Could Have Formed Near New Stars and Planets
- New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Astronomers Discover Disc Around Star in Another Galaxy
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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- Dwarf Galaxies Use 10-Million-Year Quiet Period to Churn out Stars
- NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
- 'Triple Star' Discovery Could Revolutionize Understanding of Stellar Evolution
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
- An Old Star With Ring-Like Structure: ALMA Demonstrates Highest Resolution Yet
- With Unprecedented Flares, Stellar Corpse Shows Signs of Life
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Extended Habitability of Exoplanets Due to Subglacial Water
- Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through the 'Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster'
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- NASA's Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346
- Researchers Capture First-Ever Afterglow of Huge Planetary Collision in Outer Space