Bizarre Things: Space & Time
March 2, 2025
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Feb. 28, 2025 — Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't see is a swarm of nearly three dozen small ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water cycle and to guide future robotic and human ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic objects are linked to the chaotic dynamics of ...
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Feb. 27, 2025 — Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study suggests that ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Recent advances in astronomical observations have found a significant number of extrasolar planets that can sustain surface water, and the search for extraterrestrial life on such planets is gaining ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in the soil. Their water storage capabilities may help us understand the change in water on Mars over ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — A new study shows a water-rich mineral could explain the planet's color -- and hint at its wetter, more habitable ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers investigate the extreme weather patterns and atmospheric properties of exoplanet LTT 9779 b. New JWST observations with NIRISS reveal a dynamic ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — Mars may have once been home to sun-soaked, sandy beaches with gentle, lapping waves according to a new ...
Feb. 20, 2025 — Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...
Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ...
Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of ...
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Feb. 18, 2025 — Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new way to explore how massive stars interact and evolve, confirming the unique ...
'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Feb. 18, 2025 — Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...
Feb. 14, 2025 — A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction -- from past to future -- time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the quantum ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, a new study suggests. The researchers found that ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...
Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, called Torque Clustering, that significantly improves how AI systems independently learn and uncover patterns in data, without human ...
Feb. 10, 2025 — Euclid, the European Space Agency's dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery -- right in our cosmic ...
Feb. 7, 2025 — 'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic clocks and ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — Astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- 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
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
- 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
- Scientists Simulate Asteroid Collision Effects on Climate and Plants
- By Studying Neutron 'starquakes', Scientists Hope to Transform Their Understanding of Nuclear Matter
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- 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
Friday, January 31, 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
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Innovation 'sifts' Space for Mysteries
- Dwarf Planet Ceres: Building Blocks of Life Delivered from Space
- How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Astronomers Thought They Understood Fast Radio Bursts: A Recent One Calls That Into Question
- Extreme Supersonic Winds Measured on Planet Outside Our Solar System
- First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in Landmark Survey
- NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
- The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast to Fit Theories: Hubble Tension in Crisis
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions
- Large and Small Galaxies May Grow in Ways More Similar Than Expected
- NASA's Pandora Mission One Step Closer to Probing Alien Atmospheres
- Astronomers Observe Real-Time Formation of Black Hole Jets for the First Time
- The Moon: A Chunk Ejected from Earth?
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- Fresh, Direct Evidence for Tiny Drops of Quark-Gluon Plasma
- This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe
- Super-Earth Vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner Is Super-Venus!
- Not All Hot Jupiters Orbit Solo
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
- 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
Monday, January 6, 2025
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Friday, December 20, 2024
- Dark Energy 'doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'lumpy' Universe Apart
- Clever Trick to Cook Stars Like Christmas Pudding Detected for First Time
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Large Hadron Collider Regularly Makes Magic
- Best Glimpse Ever Into Icy Planetesimals of the Early Solar System
- 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
- 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
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- 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
- Researchers Use Data from Citizen Scientists to Uncover the Mysteries of a Blue Low-Latitude Aurora
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles