Oct. 6, 2023 Astronomers have gotten very good at spotting the signs of planet formation around stars. But for a complete understanding of planet formation, we also need to study examples where planet formation ...
Oct. 6, 2023 The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. A team of astrophysicists has now shown ...
Oct. 5, 2023 A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity ...
Oct. 3, 2023 A new study posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larger lobe of the pristine Kuiper Belt ...
Oct. 3, 2023 Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent ...
Oct. 3, 2023 The ability to have access to the Internet or use a mobile phone anywhere in the world is taken more and more for granted, but the brightness of Internet and telecommunications satellites that enable ...
Oct. 3, 2023 In the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, the young galaxies appear too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the ...
Sep. 28, 2023 Before human research is conducted during commercial spaceflights, it should be 'ethically cleared to launch,' according to a global team of ...
Sep. 27, 2023 A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior to its explosion is challenging the ...
Sep. 27, 2023 The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87, made famous by the first picture of a black hole shadow, has yielded another first: the jet shooting out from the black hole has been confirmed ...