Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils, study says
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
Nov 17th, 2021
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Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
Nov 17th, 2021
Read moreOn Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had destroyed one of its old satellites in a test of an anti-satellite weapon.
Nov 17th, 2021
Read moreNew research outlines a new method to establish the star formation history of a post-starburst galaxy using its cluster population. The approach uses the age and mass estimates of stellar clusters to determine the strength and speed of the starburst that stopped more stars from forming in the galaxy.
Nov 16th, 2021
Read moreCould life survive around the nearest stars? This project aims to find out.
Nov 16th, 2021
Read moreThe traps likely contain solid carbon dioxide that could be used to sustain robot or human presence on the moon.
Nov 15th, 2021
Read moreWhile 1% of anything doesn't sound like much, with light, that's still really fast - close to 7 million miles per hour! At 1% the speed of light, it would take a little over a second to get from Los Angeles to New York. This is more than 10,000 times faster than a commercial jet.
Nov 15th, 2021
Read moreNew supercomputer simulations show that after creating a ring, a planet can move away and leave the ring behind. Not only does this bolster the planet theory for ring formation, the simulations show that a migrating planet can produce a variety of patterns matching those actually observed in disks.
Nov 12th, 2021
Read moreAstronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its close vicinity. This is the first time this detection method has been used to reveal the presence of a black hole outside of our galaxy.
Nov 11th, 2021
Read moreA team of astronomers used artificial intelligence (AI) applied to image recognition. They taught a machine to predict the effect of interactions between planets, making it possible to discover exoplanets that were impossible to detect until now.
Nov 11th, 2021
Read moreA new technique has allowed scientists to quickly detect a transiting planet with two suns.
Nov 10th, 2021
Read moreStrange 'eggshell planets' are among the rich variety of exoplanets possible, according to a study. These rocky worlds have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Such worlds are unlikely to have plate tectonics, raising questions as to their habitability.
Nov 10th, 2021
Read moreUsing data gathered by the Large Area Telescope onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and a stacking technique combining signals too weak to be observed on their own, researchers detected gamma rays from ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) in several nearby galaxies for the first time, providing a basis for scientists to understand what happened in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Nov 10th, 2021
Read moreNew study marks most distant detection of required element for life as we know it in a regular star-forming galaxy.
Nov 3rd, 2021
Read moreA new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System.
Nov 2nd, 2021
Read moreGalaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why. New findings provide the clearest evidence yet that the extreme environments surrounding galaxies can reach far within them and steal their molecular gas - the fuel needed to birth new stars and keep a galaxy alive.
Nov 2nd, 2021
Read moreHave you ever wanted to explore outer-space? Now you can, without leaving Earth, thanks to powerful, open-source beta software VIRUP that builds - in real-time - a virtual universe based on the most detailed contemporary astrophysical and cosmological data.
Nov 1st, 2021
Read moreScientists shed new light on Jupiter, revealing a surprising parallel with Earth.
Nov 1st, 2021
Read moreEngineers develop better method for cleaning up orbiting space junk.
Oct 29th, 2021
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