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July 26, 2024
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July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life -- signatures of that life in the form of organic molecules (like amino ...
July 16, 2024 — A strange 'garden sprinkler-like' jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the first time. The S-shaped structure is created as the jet changes direction due to the wobbling of the disc of hot gas around the star -- a process called ...
July 15, 2024 — Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening atmosphere. WASP-39 b, a giant planet with a diameter 1.3 ...
July 11, 2024 — The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible 'glue' of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is distributed within a galaxy offers clues to what this ...
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July 25, 2024 — A gentle rumble ran under a researcher's feet as a rocket carrying her research -- live, human muscle cells grown on scaffolds fixed on tiny chips -- ...
July 22, 2024 — A study extends the definition of a habitable zone for planets to include their star's magnetic ...
July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ...
July 24, 2024 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple system Epsilon Indi. The planet is a cold super-Jupiter exhibiting a ...
July 23, 2024 — A new study shows that over half of the medicines stocked in space -- staples such as pain relievers, antibiotics, allergy medicines, and sleep aids -- would expire before astronauts could return to ...
July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. ...
July 19, 2024 — Space storms could soon be forecasted with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth. Scientists say ...
July 19, 2024 — The first rumblings of the Sun's next 11-year solar cycle have been detected in sound waves inside our home star -- even though it is only halfway ...
July 16, 2024 — A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications ...
July 18, 2024 — Europe's next big space mission -- a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system -- is on course to launch at the end of 2026. PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits and ...
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July 18, 2024 — So far, only about ten intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered in the entire universe. The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ...
July 17, 2024 — In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures -- particularly deepfakes of people -- is becoming ...
July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the midst of becoming a hot Jupiter, ...
July 17, 2024 — Damping vibrations is crucial for precision experiments, for example in astronomy. A new invention uses a special kind of magnets to achieve this -- electropermanent magnets. They consist of a ...
July 16, 2024 — Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe's 'timekeepers'. These pulsars -- neutron stars which rotate and emit ...
July 16, 2024 — Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded winds up next to a star ...
July 16, 2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near the north pole of ...
July 15, 2024 — An international study reveals the extreme atmospheric conditions on the celestial objects, which are swathed in swirling clouds of hot sand amid temperatures of 950C. Using NASA's powerful ...
July 15, 2024 — Researchers announced the latest findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A). These observations of the youngest known core collapse supernova ...
July 15, 2024 — Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the ...
July 12, 2024 — Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations, including images and highly ...
July 12, 2024 — Galaxies avoid an early death because they have a 'heart and lungs' which effectively regulate their 'breathing' and prevent them growing out of control, a new study suggests. If ...
July 11, 2024 — The International Astronomical Union defines a planet as a celestial body that orbits the sun, is massive enough that gravity has forced it into a spherical shape, and has cleared away other objects ...
July 10, 2024 — The question of whether Mars ever supported life has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public for decades. Central to the discovery is gaining insight into the past climate of ...
July 10, 2024 — Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for ...
July 10, 2024 — Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass of under 100 times that of the ...
July 10, 2024 — There is a pressing need for countries and international organizations to understand better how existing international law can help them address serious concerns about the militarization of outer ...
July 9, 2024 — A international team of astronomers has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising 'super-Earth' covered in ice or ...
July 9, 2024 — Age data for certain classes of meteorite have made it possible to gain new findings on the origin of small water-rich astronomical bodies in the early solar system. These planetesimals continually ...
July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and metabolic diseases. The team's formulations ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Want to Spot a Deepfake? Look for the Stars in Their Eyes
- Astronomers Spot a 'highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter
- The Magnet Trick: New Invention Makes Vibrations Disappear
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- How Astronomers Are Using Pulsars to Observe Evidence of Dark Matter
- Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
- New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields Insights Into Titan's Seas
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Scorching Storms on Distant Worlds Revealed
- JWST Unveils Stunning Ejecta and CO Structures in Cassiopeia A's Young Supernova
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary
- How the 'heart and Lungs' Of a Galaxy Extend Its Life
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Mars Likely Had Cold and Icy Past, New Study Finds
- The Origins of Dark Comets
- Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri
- Greater Focus Needed on How Existing International Law Can Prevent the Increasing Militarization of Outer Space
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Found With Webb: A Potentially Habitable Icy World
- Building Materials for Water-Rich Planets in the Early Solar System
- New Way for Beneficial Microbes to Survive Extreme Conditions and Space Exploration
Monday, July 8, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Moon 'swirls' Could Be Magnetized by Unseen Magmas
- Machine Learning Could Aid Efforts to Answer Long-Standing Astrophysical Questions
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Organic Material from Mars Reveals the Likely Origin of Life's Building Blocks
- A New Pulsar Buried in a Mountain of Data
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Tiny Bright Objects Discovered at Dawn of Universe Baffle Scientists
- Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found
- New Class of Mars Quakes Reveals Daily Meteorite Strikes
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
- Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes
- Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample
- Predicting Changes Inside Astronauts' Bodies During Space Travel Through Blood Sample Analysis
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- New Evidence for How Heat Is Transported Below the Sun's Surface
- Telltale Greenhouse Gases Could Signal Alien Activity
- Marsquakes May Help Reveal Whether Liquid Water Exists Underground on Red Planet
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic Rock and Impact Ejecta
- A Hidden Treasure in the Milky Way -- Astronomers Uncover Ultrabright X-Ray Source
- Star Clusters Observed Within a Galaxy in the Early Universe
- Guiding Humanity Beyond the Moon
- First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Iron Meteorites Hint That Our Infant Solar System Was More Doughnut Than Dartboard
- Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
- Titan's Lakes May Be Shaped by Waves
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Not the Same One Cassini Observed in 1600s
- Shining Light on Mental Health in Space Science Community
- Impacts of Space Travel on Astronauts' Eye Health
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Satellites to Monitor Marine Debris from Space
- Modified Gravity Theory: A Million Light Years and Still Going
- Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter
- Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
- Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Pair Plasmas Found in Deep Space Can Now Be Generated in the Lab
- Watery Planets Orbiting Dead Stars May Be Good Candidates for Studying Life -- If They Can Survive Long Enough
- Mysterious Mini-Neptunes
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- NASA's Roman Mission Gets Cosmic 'sneak Peek' From Supercomputers
- Laser Tests Reveal New Insights Into Key Mineral for Super-Earths
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- New Biomarker Database Designed to Improve Astronaut Health May Also Be Useful to Earthlings
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe
- Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Come Into Focus Through Polarized Light
- How the Immune System Goes Awry During Space Travel and the Implications for Human Aging on Earth
- Would Astronauts' Kidneys Survive a Roundtrip to Mars?
- How Did a Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Come to Be?
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as It Speeds Across the Milky Way
- NASA's Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science
- Researchers Engineer New Approach for Controlling Thermal Emission
- Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago
- Webb Telescope Reveals Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
- In a Significant First, Researchers Detect Water Frost on Solar System's Tallest Volcanoes
- Galactic Bloodlines: Many Nearby Star Clusters Originate from Only Three 'families'
- Small, Cool and Sulfurous Exoplanet May Help Write Recipe for Planetary Formation
- In New Experiment, Scientists Record Earth's Radio Waves from the Moon
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- Diagnosing Damaged Infrastructure from Space
- Researchers Upend Theory About the Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
- Exotic Black Holes Could Be a Byproduct of Dark Matter
- Planet-Forming Disks Around Very Low-Mass Stars Are Different
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Novel Method of Detecting High-Frequency Gravitational Waves in Planetary Magnetospheres
- Scientists Detect Slowest-Spinning Radio Emitting Neutron Star Ever Recorded
- 'Weird' New Planet Retained Atmosphere Despite Nearby Star's Relentless Radiation
- Olivine Unlocks the Secrets of the Moon's Interior
Monday, June 3, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Glimpses of a Volcanic World: New Telescope Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Rival Those from Spacecraft
- Medium and Mighty: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Can Survive in Globular Clusters
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy