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April 12, 2025
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Apr. 11, 2025 — Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it would 'effectively break current models of galaxy ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new ...
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Apr. 9, 2025 — The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark matter ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Miso is a traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting cooked soybeans and salt. Researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that the miso smelled and ...
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Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — Inhaling dust particles from the Red Planet over long periods of time could put humans at risk of developing respiratory issues, thyroid disease and other health ...
Mar. 25, 2025 — Deep below the Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and ...
Mar. 24, 2025 — The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit features similar to the ...
Mar. 24, 2025 — To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split ...
Mar. 20, 2025 — Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early ...
Mar. 20, 2025 — The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Combining their data with other experiments shows signs that the ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin properties have ...
Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Oxygen Discovered in Most Distant Known Galaxy
- New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Nanomaterials Used to Measure Nuclear Reaction on Radioactive Nuclei Produced in Neutron Star Collisions
- Meteorites: A Geologic Map of the Asteroid Belt
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes
- Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System
- Age of Upcoming Asteroid Flyby Target
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Weighing in on a Mars Water Debate
- Detailed Map of Dust in the Milky Way
- Violent Supernovae 'triggered at Least Two Earth Extinctions'
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Signs of Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Gases
- Entwined Dwarf Stars Reveal Their Location Thanks to Repeated Radio Bursts
- Black Holes: Not Endings, but Beginnings? New Research Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Universe
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Four Tiny Planets Found Orbiting One of Our Nearest Stars
- Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist
- Boreal Forest: Taking Taiga's Temperature
- Small, Faint and 'unexpected in a Lot of Different Ways': Astronomers Make Galactic Discovery
Monday, March 10, 2025
- James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Unexpected Complex Chemistry in Primordial Galaxy
- Evidence of a New Phenomenon: Quantum Tornadoes in Momentum Space
- Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
- Small and Large Planets Have Significantly Different Upbringings
- Astronomer Finds Gas Giant Exoplanets Formed Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
- Satellite Image Analysis Delivers New Insight Into the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests
- Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second
- Ultra-Hot Nova Observed Erupting: Surprising Chemical Signature
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Beyond Our Solar System: Scientists Identify a New Exoplanet Candidate
- NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Designing a Satellite to Hunt Small Space Debris
- Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects
- The International Space Station Is Overly Sterile; Making It 'dirtier' Could Improve Astronaut Health
- NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem
- Can We Find Floating Vegetation on Ocean Planets?
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Lunar Trailblazer Blasts Off to Map Water on the Moon
- ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact
- Why Is Mars Red? Scientists May Finally Have the Answer
- Today's Forecast: Partially Cloudy Skies on an 'ultra-Hot Neptune'
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
Monday, February 24, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Breakthrough Study Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
- In Ancient Stellar Nurseries, Some Stars Are Born of Fluffy Clouds
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
- 'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Does Planetary Evolution Favor Human-Like Life? Study Ups Odds We're Not Alone
- Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System
- 'Game Changing' Release of Type Ia Supernovae Data May Hold Key to the History of the Universe
- New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
- Fully 3D-Printed Electrospray Engine
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Creation of Black Holes Without Singularities Through Pure Gravity
- Physicists Uncover Evidence of Two Arrows of Time Emerging from the Quantum Realm
- Jumping Workouts Could Help Astronauts on the Moon and Mars, Study in Mice Suggests
- Astronomers Gauge Livability of Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars
- Phoenix Galaxy Cluster in the Act of Extreme Cooling
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Tidal Energy Measurements Help Scientists Understand Titan's Composition, Orbital History
- First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino
Monday, February 10, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space
- New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers
- Alien Ocean Could Hide Signs of Life from Spacecraft
- Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Dusting for Stars' Magnetic Fingerprints
- Meteorite Discovery Challenges Long-Held Theories on Earth's Missing Elements
- Scientists Simulate Asteroid Collision Effects on Climate and Plants
- By Studying Neutron 'starquakes', Scientists Hope to Transform Their Understanding of Nuclear Matter
- One in Four Chance Per Year That Rocket Junk Will Enter Busy Airspace
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology?
- Quantum Machine Offers Peek Into 'dance' Of Cosmic Bubbles
- Spinning Neutron Star Gains Enormous Magnetic Fields
- Wobbling Stars Reveal Hidden Companions in Gaia Data
- Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings
Monday, February 3, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
- A New Feature Discovered in Radioactive Lanthanum Isotopes
- Lightsails Could Reach Distant Star Systems
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- A Less 'clumpy,' More Complex Universe?
- The Hidden Power of the Smallest Microquasars
- Even Quantum Physics Obeys the Law of Entropy
- Life's Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu Samples
- Exploring Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Moon Is Not as 'geologically Dead' As Previously Thought
- Follow the Water: Searching for a Lunar Oasis
- A Super-Earth Laboratory for Searching Life Elsewhere in the Universe
- Explaining Persistent Hydrogen in Mars' Atmosphere