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April 22, 2024
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Apr. 22, 2024 — Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other planets, a new paper ...
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. 22, 2024 — Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive ...
Apr. 12, 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 ...
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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. 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 — 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. 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 ...
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 — 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. 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. 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 ...
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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 — 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. 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 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 — 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 ...
Mar. 26, 2024 — Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short ...
Mar. 26, 2024 — An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest 'starquakes' ever recorded, measured by an international team of ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — New work aimed to study the star-forming gas in a single radio galaxy. Although the team didn't find any star-forming gas in the galaxy they were studying, they instead discovered other galaxies ...
Mar. 22, 2024 — Could life be found in frozen sea spray from moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter? New research finds that life can be detected in a single ice grain containing one bacterial cell or portions of a cell. ...
Mar. 22, 2024 — How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to ...
Mar. 21, 2024 — A challenge to space scientists to better understand our hazardous near-Earth space environment has been set in a new ...
Mar. 20, 2024 — A group of high school students from Oakland, California, made contributions to the field of exoplanet research. Researchers worked with the students to use backpack-sized digital smart telescopes. ...
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Telescope Detects Unprecedented Behavior from Nearby Magnetar
- Inexplicable Flying Fox Found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster
Friday, April 5, 2024
- CHEOPS Detects a 'rainbow' On an Exoplanet
- Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- 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
- 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
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
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery
- Scientists Find One of the Most Ancient Stars That Formed in Another Galaxy
- 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
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Cheers! NASA's Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
- Explaining a Supernova's 'string of Pearls'
Monday, March 11, 2024
- Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 With NASA's Webb
- Nasa’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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
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
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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
- New Realistic Computer Model Will Help Robots Collect Moon Dust
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- 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
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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
- Which Came First: Black Holes or Galaxies?
Friday, February 2, 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test
- The Hottest Catalog of the Year: Comprehensive List of Slow-Building Solar Flares
Monday, January 29, 2024
- Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
- Researchers Spying for Signs of Life Among Exoplanet Atmospheres
- Astronomers Spot 18 Black Holes Gobbling Up Nearby Stars
- Cosmic Building Blocks of Life Discovered Through the Electron Microscope
Friday, January 26, 2024
- 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
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? MeerKAT Uncovers a Mysterious Object in Milky Way
- Moon Rocks With Unique Dust Found
- Origin of Intense Light in Supermassive Black Holes and Tidal Disruption Events Revealed
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Astronomers Detect Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed
- The Metalens Meets the Stars
- Study Delivers Detailed Photos of Galaxies' Inner Structures
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Close Encounters of the Supermassive Black Hole Kind
- Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy
- Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
- Potential Solvents Identified for Building on Moon and Mars
- NASA's Webb Discovers Dusty 'cat's Tail' In Beta Pictoris System
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
- 'Blob-Like' Home of Farthest-Known Fast Radio Burst Is Collection of Seven Galaxies
- Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
Monday, January 8, 2024
- Final Supernova Results from Dark Energy Survey Offer Unique Insights Into the Expansion of the Universe
- Three Iron Rings in a Planet-Forming Disk
- Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe's Rare Radio Circles