Astrophysics News
July 26, 2024
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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 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. Their new calculations reveal that pairs of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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 lighthouse-like beams of ...
July 15, 2024 — Researchers announced the latest findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A). These ...
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 James ...
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 detailed ...
Earlier Headlines
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 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 ...
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 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 5, 2024 — A mysterious remnant from a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained for the first time. Two white dwarf stars collided, creating a temporary 'guest star,' now labeled ...
July 3, 2024 — Physicists have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as plasmoids. In a novel twist, the program has been trained ...
July 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered the first millisecond pulsar in the stellar cluster ...
June 28, 2024 — A recent discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the origins ...
June 28, 2024 — Bringing us one step closer to solving the 'missing satellites problem,' researchers have discovered two new satellite ...
June 27, 2024 — The majority of stars in our galaxy are home to planets. The most abundant are the sub-Neptunes, planets between the size of Earth and Neptune. Calculating their density poses a problem for ...
June 26, 2024 — Dark energy -- a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate -- was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle ...
June 26, 2024 — Made famous in 1995 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imaginations worldwide with their arresting, ethereal beauty. Now, ...
June 25, 2024 — Solar physicists have revealed the interior structure of the sun's supergranules, a flow structure that transports heat from the sun's hidden interior to its surface. The researchers' ...
June 24, 2024 — Astronomers uncovered that a well-known X-ray binary, whose exact nature has been a mystery to scientists until now, is actually a hidden ultraluminous X-ray ...
June 24, 2024 — The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...
June 24, 2024 — For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image ...
June 20, 2024 — Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...
June 20, 2024 — Supermassive black holes pose unanswered questions for astronomers around the world, not least 'How do they grow so big?' Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered a powerful ...
June 18, 2024 — New simulations show that hot neutrinos created at the interface of merging binary neutron stars are briefy trapped and remain out of equilibrium with the cold cores of the stars for 2 to 3 ...
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Scientific Definition of a Planet Says It Must Orbit Our Sun; A New Proposal Would Change That
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Tracked Using Stellar Motions
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Tiny Bright Objects Discovered at Dawn of Universe Baffle Scientists
- Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy
- Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
- A Hidden Treasure in the Milky Way -- Astronomers Uncover Ultrabright X-Ray Source
- Star Clusters Observed Within a Galaxy in the Early Universe
- 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
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
- 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
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe
- Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Come Into Focus Through Polarized Light
- 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
- 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
- Galactic Bloodlines: Many Nearby Star Clusters Originate from Only Three 'families'
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- 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
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Medium and Mighty: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Can Survive in Globular Clusters
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Birth of Universe's Earliest Galaxies Observed for First Time
- Intriguing Nearby World Sized Between Earth, Venus
- First Pictures from Euclid Satellite Reveal Billions of Orphan Stars
- Potentially Habitable 'exo-Venus' With Earth-Like Temperature Discovered
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Using Wobbling Stellar Material, Astronomers Measure the Spin of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time
- The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-Like Star
- Detection of an Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting the Ultracool Dwarf Star SPECULOOS-3
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- WASP-193b, a Giant Planet With a Density Similar to That of Cotton Candy
- Researchers Discover the Universe's Oldest Stars in Our Own Galactic Backyard
Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Venus Has Almost No Water: A New Study May Reveal Why
- Astronomers Observe Elusive Stellar Light Surrounding Ancient Quasars
- Hubble Views a Galaxy With a Voracious Black Hole
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Webb Captures Top of Iconic Horsehead Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
- NASA's Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Astronomers' Simulations Support Dark Matter Theory
- Gemini South Reveals Origin of Unexpected Differences in Giant Binary Stars
Friday, April 26, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
- AI and Physics Combine to Reveal the 3D Structure of a Flare Erupting Around a Black Hole
- Giant Galactic Explosion Exposes Galaxy Pollution in Action
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Physicists Solve Puzzle About Ancient Galaxy Found by Webb Telescope
- Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst of All Time Came from the Collapse of a Massive Star
- Stellar Winds of Three Sun-Like Stars Detected for the First Time
- Exoplanets True to Size
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Beautiful Nebula, Violent History: Clash of Stars Solves Stellar Mystery
- Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'sneezes' Tell Us How You Are
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Telescope Detects Unprecedented Behavior from Nearby Magnetar
- Inexplicable Flying Fox Found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
- Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Stellar Collisions Produce Strange, Zombie-Like Survivors
- First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Astronomers Conduct First Search for Forming Planets With New Space Telescope
- Persistent Hiccups in a Far-Off Galaxy Draw Astronomers to New Black Hole Behavior
- Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light