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January 18, 2025
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Jan. 17, 2025 — In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent ...
Jan. 17, 2025 — Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimeter-sized ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant object detected by the NuSTAR X-ray space ...
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Jan. 16, 2025 — Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — Pandora, a small satellite mission poised to provide in-depth study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars to determine the composition of their atmospheres cleared an important ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that reside in a region of space isolated from ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, these planets were thought to accrete or eject any other planets present. ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies ...
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Jan. 13, 2025 — The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating electricity in the final frontier, ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — A whitish, grey patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has now been ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — An international team of scientists has called for the creation of an 18th addition to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which would aim to mitigate against the accumulation of space ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that ...
Jan. 1, 2025 — Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel technique might also ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — A study introduces a novel thermodynamic concept called the 'centotectic' and investigates the stability of liquids in extreme conditions -- critical information for determining the ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the past 100 years, ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — Scientists have delivered the first measurements of Greenland Ice Sheet thickness change using data from ESA and NASA ice satellite missions. With global warming causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A brotherly research duo has discovered that when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces top quarks -- the heaviest known fundamental particles -- it regularly creates a property known as ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky. The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport experiment -- KiNET-X -- ...
Monday, January 13, 2025
- NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'blue Lurker' Among Stars
- New Study Unveils Breakthrough in Understanding Cosmic Particle Accelerators
- X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously
Friday, January 10, 2025
- Light, Flexible and Radiation-Resistant: Organic Solar Cells for Space
- 'What Is That?' Scientists Explain White Patch That Appears Near Northern Lights
- New Data on Atmosphere from Earth to the Edge of Space
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Beyond the 'Dragon Arc', a Treasure Trove of Unseen Stars
- Physicists Explain a Stellar Stream's Distinctive Features
- Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice
Friday, January 3, 2025
- Research May Boost Next-Generation Space Rockets
- The Carbon in Our Bodies Probably Left the Galaxy and Came Back on Cosmic 'conveyer Belt'
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Friday, December 20, 2024
- Mysteries of Icy Ocean Worlds
- Dark Energy 'doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'lumpy' Universe Apart
- ESA and NASA Satellites Deliver First Joint Picture of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting
- Clever Trick to Cook Stars Like Christmas Pudding Detected for First Time
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Large Hadron Collider Regularly Makes Magic
- First Results from 2021 Rocket Launch Shed Light on Aurora's Birth
- Best Glimpse Ever Into Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System
- Origins of Lunar Water and Its Connection to Earth's Early History
- Scientists Solving Meteorological Mysteries on Mars
- New Evidence Exists for Hidden Water Reservoirs and Rare Magmas on Ancient Mars
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Young Exoplanet's Atmosphere Unexpectedly Differs from Its Birthplace
- Supermassive Black Holes Halt Rapid Construction in an Ancient Celestial City
- Uncovering a Centaur's Tracks: Scientists Examine Unique Asteroid-Comet Hybrid
- Survey of 26,000 Dead Stars Confirms Key Details of Extreme Stellar Behavior
- Massive Black Hole in the Early Universe Spotted Taking a 'nap' After Overeating
- A 'remelting' Of Lunar Surface Adds a Wrinkle to Mystery of Moon's True Age
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Brain Cells Remain Healthy After a Month on the International Space Station, but Mature Faster Than Brain Cells on Earth
- Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Monday, December 16, 2024
- New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars
- Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Have an Atmosphere After All?
- Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars
Friday, December 13, 2024
- Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole M87
- Heart of Jovian Moon's Volcanic Rage
- Planets Form Through Domino Effect
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- A New Galaxy, Much Like Our Own
- Eyes on the Sun: Naked Thallium-205 Ion Decay Reveals History Over Millions of Years
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
- Mars' Infamous Dust Storms Can Engulf the Entire Planet: A New Study Examines How
- Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here
- Astronomers Witness the in Situ Spheroid Formation in Distant Submillimetre-Bright Galaxies
- Researchers Use Data from Citizen Scientists to Uncover the Mysteries of a Blue Low-Latitude Aurora
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth's Climate in the Long Term
- Astronomers Close to Solving Mystery of How Universe's Giant Galaxies Formed
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth
- Researchers Deal a Blow to Theory That Venus Once Had Liquid Water on Its Surface
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Team Unlocks New Insights on Pulsar Signals
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Uranus's Swaying Moons Will Help Spacecraft Seek out Hidden Oceans
- A Clue to What Lies Beneath the Bland Surfaces of Uranus and Neptune
- Novel Supernova Observations Grant Astronomers a Peek Into the Cosmic Past
- Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- A Nearby Supernova Could End the Search for Dark Matter
- Astronomers Take the First Close-Up Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Confinement May Affect How We Smell and Feel About Food
- Possible Origins of Dark Matter in 'Dark Big Bang' Scenario
- New Research Explores Volcanic Caves, Advancing the Search for Life on Mars
- New Idea May Crack Enigma of the Crab Nebula's 'zebra' Pattern
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Long-Sought Measurement of Exotic Beta Decay in Thallium Helps Extract the Timescale of the Sun's Birth
- Scientists Compile Library for Evaluating Exoplanet Water
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago
- Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
- Three Galactic 'red Monsters' In the Early Universe
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
- New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions
Monday, November 11, 2024
- Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun
- Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes
- Off-the-Shelf Thermoelectric Generators Can Upgrade CO2 Into Chemicals: The Combination Could Help Us Colonize Mars
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Interstellar Methane as Progenitor of Amino Acids?
- Asteroid Grains Shed Light on the Outer Solar System's Origins
- Mighty Radio Bursts Linked to Massive Galaxies
Monday, November 4, 2024
- Satellite Imagery May Help Protect Coastal Forests from Climate Change
- Space: A New Frontier for Exploring Stem Cell Therapy
- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe