Astronomy News
December 23, 2024
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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 habitability of icy moons like ...
Dec. 19, 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 regions could be the key to making the centres of ...
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, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is ...
Dec. 19, 2024 Scientists are changing our understanding of climate and weather on Mars and providing critical insights into Earth's atmospheric processes as ...
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Dec. 19, 2024 New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming ...
Dec. 18, 2024 A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging ...
Dec. 17, 2024 After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful ...
Dec. 17, 2024 An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet Trappist-1 b's nature. Until now, it was assumed to be a dark rocky planet ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's ...
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Dec. 13, 2024 The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
Dec. 13, 2024 A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all ...
Dec. 11, 2024 Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...
Dec. 10, 2024 New research suggests that these ultra-high energy rays derive their energy from magnetic ...
Dec. 9, 2024 A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might erupt on the Red ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be ...
Dec. 9, 2024 New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe -- not a flaw in telescope measurements -- may be behind the decade-long mystery of why the universe is ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy ...
Dec. 4, 2024 Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...
Dec. 3, 2024 An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbor was once much more like Earth than it is ...
Nov. 26, 2024 Results showed that in almost all cases, measured bandwidths were higher than predictions by widely used models of the galaxy, highlighting a need for updates to current ISM density ...
Nov. 26, 2024 Researchers have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme astrophysical event known as long-period radio ...
Nov. 26, 2024 Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A new study shows that these dark UV ovals are common, appearing at the south ...
Nov. 25, 2024 A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing ...
Nov. 25, 2024 An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever ...
Friday, December 13, 2024
- Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole M87
- Heart of Jovian Moon's Volcanic Rage
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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
- 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
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Scientists Discover Molecules That Store Much of the Carbon in Space
- Dandelion-Shaped Supernova and Zombie Star
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- NRL Coronagraph Captures Unique Images of a Dusty Comet
- Rocky Planets Orbiting Small Stars Could Have Stable Atmospheres Needed to Support Life
- Physicists Discover First 'black Hole Triple'
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Are Nearby Planets Sending Radio Signals to Each Other?
- It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
- The Origin of Most Meteorites Finally Revealed
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
- 'Inside-Out' Galaxy Growth Observed in the Early Universe
- NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
- 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
- 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
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
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Potential Indicators of Life on Other Planets Can Be Created in a Lab
- 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
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
- 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
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