NASA, NOAA: Sun reaches maximum phase in 11-year solar cycle
Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. Scientists will not be able to determine the exact peak of this solar maximum period...
View ArticleAre nearby planets sending radio signals to each other?
Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system.
View ArticleThe origin of most meteorites finally revealed
An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions that...
View ArticleIt's twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved
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...
View ArticleOut-of-this-world simulation key to collecting moon dust
Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new research.
View ArticleAstronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins
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 so early...
View ArticleNASA reveals prototype telescope for gravitational wave observatory
NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves.
View ArticleUltra-small spectrometer yields the power of a 1,000 times bigger device
Researchers are designing new ways to make spectrometers that are ultra-small but still very powerful, to be used for anything from detecting disease to observing stars in distant galaxies.
View ArticleRocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to...
A sequence of events during the evolution of certain rocky planets orbiting M-dwarfs, the most common stars in the universe, creates an atmosphere that would be stable over time. This is true for more...
View ArticleNRL coronagraph captures unique images of a dusty comet
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and...
View ArticleScientists discover molecules that store much of the carbon in space
A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This suggest pyrene may have been...
View ArticleDandelion-shaped supernova and zombie star
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 are...
View ArticleSeeing a black hole's jet in a new light
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 holes.
View ArticleEvidence mounts for dark energy from black holes
Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black holes.
View ArticleOne of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe
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...
View ArticleFaster space communication with record-sensitive receiver
In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not be...
View ArticleNew ESO image captures a dark wolf in the sky
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...
View ArticleNASA's Hubble, Webb probe surprisingly smooth disk around Vega
Teams of astronomers used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega disk.
View ArticleLaser measurements to track space debris and observe water masses
More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using satellite laser ranging.
View ArticleAstronomers discover the fastest-feeding black hole in the early universe
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 theoretical...
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