MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet's thin atmosphere.
Sep 1st, 2022
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Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues
Merging galaxies may hurl away the gas that fuels new stars, according to a discovery by astronomers.
Sep 1st, 2022
Read moreX-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected
Simple simulation accidentally leads to X-shaped galaxy for first time.
Aug 29th, 2022
Read moreThe sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discovers
Geological discoveries hint at conditions when life arose on Earth - and possibly on Mars.
Aug 26th, 2022
Read moreAn extrasolar world covered in water?
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary system located in the Draco constellation about 100 light-years from Earth.
Aug 24th, 2022
Read moreWhat are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time
While scientists have no evidence that wormholes actually exist in our world, they're good tools to help astrophysicists think about space and time. They may also answer age-old questions about what the universe looks like.
Aug 22nd, 2022
Read moreLooking inside a neutron star - new model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves
The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.
Aug 19th, 2022
Read moreSharpest image ever of Universe's most massive known star
Groundbreaking observation from Gemini Observatory suggests this and possibly other colossal stars are less massive than previously thought.
Aug 19th, 2022
Read moreBlack hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding
Astrophysicists lay out a method for how to use pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast our universe is expanding - and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it's going.
Aug 17th, 2022
Read moreMars model provides method for landing humans on Red Planet
A mathematical model developed by space medicine experts could be used to predict whether an astronaut can safely travel to Mars and fulfil their mission duties upon stepping foot on the Red Planet.
Aug 17th, 2022
Read moreBrightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
A rare find - a 'warm Neptune' around a bright blue star - offers clues to the dearth of Hot Neptunes.
Aug 12th, 2022
Read moreBetelgeuse recovers - for now
New observations of the red supergiant suggest that the 2019 mass ejection of its atmosphere might significantly affects its fate.
Aug 11th, 2022
Read moreSurprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.
Aug 11th, 2022
Read moreOne more clue to the Moon's origin
Researchers report findings that show that the Moon inherited the indigenous noble gases of helium and neon from Earth's mantle. The discovery adds to the already strong constraints on the currently favoured 'Giant Impact' theory that hypothesizes the Moon was formed by a massive collision between Earth and another celestial body.
Aug 11th, 2022
Read moreDARPA project to give satellites a shared, optical language
New Space-BACN effort will enable communication between low orbiting satellites - both with each other and their partners on the ground.
Aug 10th, 2022
Read moreDo 'bouncing universes' have a beginning?
Some cosmological models propose that the universe expands and contracts in infinite cycles, but new research finds a crucial flaw in the latest version of this theory.
Aug 9th, 2022
Read moreFirst-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk
Scientists studying planet formation have made the first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk. What's more, the detection also suggests the presence of a very young exoplanet.
Aug 9th, 2022
Read moreNo trace of dark matter halos
According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull on galaxies in the vicinity. A new study challenges this view of the Universe.
Aug 5th, 2022
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