Bizarre Things: Space & Time
November 20, 2024
Top Headlines
Nov. 19, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Through the intricate study of lava tubes -- caves formed following volcanic eruptions when lava cools down -- an international team of researchers has uncovered clues about Earth's ancient environments that could be significant in the search for ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite ...
Latest Headlines
updated 11:31pm EST
Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...
Nov. 11, 2024 — Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research. But unlike on Earth, the formation and evolution of these vortices are driven by magnetic ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...
Nov. 7, 2024 — Readily available thermoelectric generators operating under modest temperature differences can power CO2 conversion, according to a proof-of-concept ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Gamma radiation can convert methane into a wide variety of products at room temperature, including hydrocarbons, oxygen-containing molecules, and amino acids, reports a research team. This type of ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered where FRBs are more likely to occur in the universe -- massive star-forming galaxies rather than low - mass ...
Earlier Headlines
Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...
Nov. 4, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...
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 — 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 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black ...
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. 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 ...
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. 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. 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. 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 ...
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 — 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. 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 ...
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
- One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe
- Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 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
Friday, October 11, 2024
- '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
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
- New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
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
- 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
- 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
- Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology's Two Biggest Puzzles
- Huge Gamma-Ray Burst Collection 'rivals 250-Year-Old Messier Catalog'
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
- 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
- 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
- Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All
- New Record in Search for Dark Matter
Friday, August 23, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- New View of North Star Reveals Spotted Surface
- Spectacular Increase in the Deuterium/hydrogen Ratio in Venus' Atmosphere
Friday, August 16, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Galaxies in Dense Environments Tend to Be Larger, Settling One Cosmic Question and Raising Others
- 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
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
- Engineers Make Tunable, Shape-Changing Metamaterial Inspired by Vintage Toys
- Scientists Find Oceans of Water on Mars: It's Just Too Deep to Tap
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
- International Space Station Crew Carries out Archeological Survey in Space
- Findings from First Archaeology Project in Space
- Scientists Lay out Revolutionary Method to Warm Mars
Monday, August 5, 2024
Friday, August 2, 2024
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- Scientists Devise Method to Secure Earth's Biodiversity on the Moon
- The Rotation of a Nearby Star Stuns Astronomers
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
- What No One Has Seen Before -- Simulation of Gravitational Waves from Failing Warp Drive
- The Corona Is Weirdly Hot: Parker Solar Probe Rules out One Explanation
Monday, July 29, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
- Images of Nearest 'super-Jupiter' Open a New Window to Exoplanet Research