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November 1, 2024
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Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare, a new study ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so early on in the universe, without a significant ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, ...
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Nov. 1, 2024 — Teams of astronomers used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ice shell and may ...
Oct. 24, 2024 — A historical supernova documented by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 has been lost for centuries, until very recently. Yet, the newly found remnant shows some stunning characteristics that ...
Oct. 24, 2024 — A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This suggest pyrene may have ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — A sequence of events during the evolution of certain rocky planets orbiting M-dwarfs, the most common stars in the universe, creates an atmosphere ...
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Oct. 23, 2024 — A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — Researchers are designing new ways to make spectrometers that are ultra-small but still very powerful, to be used for anything from detecting disease to observing stars in distant ...
Oct. 22, 2024 — NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational ...
Oct. 22, 2024 — Researchers are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system ...
Oct. 21, 2024 — Observing sites like the Amazon basin from space has underscored the capability of satellites to better detect signs of drought, according to a new study. The researchers combined Global Positioning ...
Oct. 18, 2024 — Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. Scientists will not be able to determine the exact peak of this solar maximum period ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 ...
Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that without 'unmelted' asteroids, ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant advancement in understanding the underlying heating mechanism of the sun's atmosphere, finding that reflected plasma waves could drive the heating of coronal ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher has ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises -- especially when ...
Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with evidence for ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Physicists Discover First 'black Hole Triple'
- Ultra-Small Spectrometer Yields the Power of a 1,000 Times Bigger Device
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory
- Can Cell Phone Signals Help Land a Plane?
Monday, October 21, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Out-of-This-World Simulation Key to Collecting Moon Dust
- Are Nearby Planets Sending Radio Signals to Each Other?
- It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle
- Simulated Mission to Mars: Survey of Lichen Species
Monday, October 14, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
- How Did the Building Blocks of Life Arrive on Earth?
- 'Inside-Out' Galaxy Growth Observed in the Early Universe
- Researchers Find Clues to the Mysterious Heating of the Sun's Atmosphere
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 'Islands' Of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
- Lightning Strikes Kick Off a Game of Electron Pinball in Space
Friday, October 11, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
- New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
- Influence of a Black Hole's Spin: First Evidence of Precession in Ultraluminous Accretion Disks
- Winds of Change: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star Systems
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- In Odd Galaxy, NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
- A New Era of Solar Observation
- Widespread Ice Deposits on the Moon
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Physicists Explore Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
- Scientists Discover Planet Orbiting Closest Single Star to Our Sun
- Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Study Coordinates Satellite Swarm for 3D Imaging Inside Clouds
- First Data from XRISM Space Mission Provides New Perspective on Supermassive Black Holes
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Our Cosmic Neighborhood May Be 10x Larger
- A New Birthplace for Asteroid Ryugu
- Asteroid Ceres Is a Former Ocean World That Slowly Formed Into a Giant, Murky Icy Orb
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- This Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth -- 8 Billion Years from Now
- ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky Way
- NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- How Special Is the Milky Way Galaxy?
- Mars' Missing Atmosphere Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight
- Mapping Distant Planets: 'Ridges', 'deserts' And 'savannahs'
- Webb Discovers 'weird' Galaxy With Gas Outshining Its Stars
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Potential Indicators of Life on Other Planets Can Be Created in a Lab
- Low Gravity in Space Travel Found to Weaken and Disrupt Normal Rhythm in Heart Muscle Cells
- Early-Universe Quasar Neighborhoods Are Indeed Cluttered
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Volcanoes May Help Reveal Interior Heat on Jupiter Moon
- Organic Matter on Mars Was Formed from Atmospheric Formaldehyde
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'carousel Lens'
- Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
- NASA's Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- A Wobble from Mars Could Be Sign of Dark Matter
- More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
- Black Hole Pairs May Unveil New Particles
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology's Two Biggest Puzzles
- Simple Shift Could Make Low Earth Orbit Satellites High Capacity
- Huge Gamma-Ray Burst Collection 'rivals 250-Year-Old Messier Catalog'
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona
- Keeping Mold out of Future Space Stations
- Astronomers Track Bubbles on Star's Surface
Monday, September 9, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
- Mathematical Proof: Five Satellites Needed for Precise Navigation
- AI Helps Distinguish Dark Matter from Cosmic Noise
- Astrophysics: AI Shines a New Light on Exoplanets
- Massive Merger: Study Reveals Evidence for Origin of Supermassive Black Hole at Galaxy's Center
Thursday, September 5, 2024
- Groundwater Use Can Be Accurately Monitored With Satellites Using OPENet
- Gravitational Waves Unveil Previously Unseen Properties of Neutron Stars
- Researchers Discover a Space Oddity -- An Exoplanet Moving in Mysterious Ways
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon
- How Bright Is the Universe's Glow? Study Offers Best Measurement Yet
Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
- Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Nature of Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- Bubbling, Frothing and Sloshing: Long-Hypothesized Plasma Instabilities Finally Observed
- Highest-Resolution Observations Yet from the Surface of Earth
- Hidden Magmatism Discovered at the Chang'e-6 Lunar Landing Site
- Six New Rogue Worlds: Star Birth Clues
Monday, August 26, 2024
- First Low Frequency Search for Alien Technology in Distant Galaxies
- Astrophysicists Use AI to Precisely Calculate Universe's 'settings'
- Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All
- New Record in Search for Dark Matter
Friday, August 23, 2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- New View of North Star Reveals Spotted Surface
- Explanation Found for X-Ray Radiation from Black Holes
- Spectacular Increase in the Deuterium/hydrogen Ratio in Venus' Atmosphere
Friday, August 16, 2024
- Tracking Down the Asteroid That Sealed the Fate of the Dinosaurs
- Right on Schedule: Physicists Use Modeling to Forecast a Black Hole's Feeding Patterns With Precision
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Galaxies in Dense Environments Tend to Be Larger, Settling One Cosmic Question and Raising Others
- Rocks Collected on Mars Hold Key to Water and Perhaps Life on the Planet: Bring Them Back to Earth
- Rocks from Mars' Jezero Crater, Which Likely Predate Life on Earth, Contain Signs of Water
- Engineers Conduct First in-Orbit Test of 'swarm' Satellite Autonomous Navigation