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May 21, 2024
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May 15, 2024 Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, ...
May 9, 2024 Astrophysicists discovered that an exoplanet is covered with so many active volcanoes that seen from a distance it would take on a fiery, glowing-red ...
May 9, 2024 A recent study has discovered a novel method for detecting the first-generations stars, known as Population III (Pop III) stars, which have never been directly detected. These potential discoveries about Pop III stars hold the promise of unlocking ...
May 8, 2024 Researchers may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar ...
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May 6, 2024 New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu, some probably due to micrometeoroid ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ...
Apr. 24, 2024 While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. The findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ...
Apr. 12, 2024 An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the ...
Apr. 12, 2024 A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have ...
Apr. 5, 2024 Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...
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Apr. 5, 2024 The CHEOPS space telescope is providing new information on the mysterious exoplanet WASP-76b. This ultra-hot giant is characterized by an asymmetry between the amount of light observed on its eastern ...
Mar. 28, 2024 New research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our ...
Mar. 27, 2024 The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Researchers found that the double-lobed object, which is officially named Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth and resembles a snowman, may have ancient ices stored deep within it from when the object ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Scientists captured images showing the development of turbulence as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) interacted with the ambient solar wind in the circumsolar ...
Mar. 26, 2024 An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest 'starquakes' ever recorded, measured by an international team of ...
Mar. 22, 2024 How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to ...
Mar. 21, 2024 A challenge to space scientists to better understand our hazardous near-Earth space environment has been set in a new ...
Mar. 14, 2024 A new paper presents findings about the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, shedding new light on the preservation of volatile substances like carbon monoxide in such distant celestial bodies. The ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Space weather experts are urging regulators and space tourism innovators to work together to protect their passengers and crews from the risks of space weather radiation ...
Mar. 5, 2024 A team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. The research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets ...
Mar. 4, 2024 The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists uncover how planets form by advancing understanding of their birthplaces and the circumstellar disks surrounding young stars. Scientists have ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the Perseverance rover. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which the rocks ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Up to a certain point, very luminous stars can have a positive effect on the formation of planets, but from that point on the radiation they emit can cause the material in protoplanetary discs to ...
Feb. 26, 2024 When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids that were born with it. Now, researchers have found a unique signature of this process for ...
Feb. 15, 2024 A team found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt. Methane detected on their surfaces has the tell-tale signs ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Although solar flares have been classified based on the amount of energy they emit at their peak, there has not been significant study into differentiating flares since slow-building flares were ...
Jan. 26, 2024 TOI-1136, a dwarf star located more than 270 light years from Earth, is host to six confirmed exoplanets and a seventh as yet unconfirmed candidate. The system has provided a rich source of ...
Jan. 18, 2024 A research team has for the first time discovered anomalous meter-sized rocks on the lunar surface that are covered in dust and presumably exhibit unique properties -- such as magnetic anomalies. ...
Jan. 17, 2024 A 10-month mission demonstrated three elements of the plan to beam solar power from space to ...
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- Long-Period Oscillations Control the Sun's Differential Rotation
- Distant 'space Snowman' Unlocks Mystery of How Some Dormant Deep Space Objects Become 'ice Bombs'
- Turbulence Within Solar Transients Imaged
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth Around Dozens of Stars
Monday, March 4, 2024
- JWST Captures the End of Planet Formation
- Study Determines the Original Orientations of Rocks Drilled on Mars
Friday, March 1, 2024
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
Monday, January 8, 2024
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Friday, December 1, 2023
- One of the Largest Magnetic Storms in History Quantified: Aurorae Covered Much of the Night Sky from the Tropics to the Polar Regions
- Meteorites Likely Source of Nitrogen for Early Earth
Thursday, November 30, 2023
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- 'Bouncing' Comets Could Deliver Building Blocks for Life to Exoplanets
- Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings
Monday, November 13, 2023
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Monday, October 23, 2023
- Researchers Capture First Images of a Radio 'ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse
- Researchers Probe How a Piece of the Moon Became a Near-Earth Asteroid
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
- Scientists Discover the Highest Energy Gamma-Rays Ever from a Pulsar
- Plot Thickens in Hunt for Ninth Planet
Monday, September 25, 2023
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Monday, July 31, 2023
- Sun 'umbrella' Tethered to Asteroid Might Help Mitigate Climate Change
- New Clues on the Source of the Universe's Magnetic Fields
Thursday, July 27, 2023
- James Webb Space Telescope Sees Jupiter Moons in a New Light
- Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting the Hiccups
Thursday, July 20, 2023
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Monday, July 17, 2023
- Astronomers Discover Striking Evidence of 'unusual' Stellar Evolution
- Giant Swirling Waves at Edge of Jupiter's Magnetosphere
Thursday, July 13, 2023
- Astronomers Identify the Coldest Star Yet That Emits Radio Waves
- James Webb Telescope Catches Glimpse of Possible First-Ever 'dark Stars'
- Rare, Double-Lobe Nebula Resembles Overflowing Cosmic 'jug'
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
- Researchers Demystify the Unusual Origin of the Geminids Meteor Shower
- Scientists Report 'benchmarks' For Extreme Space Weather
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
- Earth Was Created Much Faster Than We Thought: This Makes the Chance of Finding Other Habitable Planets in the Universe More Likely
- A Scorching-Hot Exoplanet Scrutinized by Astronomers
- Sun's Coldest Region Stores Secret to Heating Million-Degree Corona