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Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere in the microwave range, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented an initial series of 6 scientific articles, giving the most accurate description we have of the polarization of the emission of the Milky Way at these wavelengths.
Jan 12th, 2023
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Gaia17bpp dimmed by about 4.5 orders of magnitude - or roughly 45,000 times. The star remained dim over the course of nearly seven years, from 2012 to 2019. The sudden brightening that the Gaia survey had uncovered was the end of that seven-year dim.
Jan 11th, 2023
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Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star - the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likely rocky.
Jan 11th, 2023
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Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make assumptions about the relative amounts of different types of gas, making this method more accurate and robust than previous methods.
Jan 11th, 2023
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Scientists discovered a supernova explosion that expands our understanding of the later life stages of massive stars.
Jan 10th, 2023
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Can the mapping of planets become an automated process? Scientists have now developed a novel, open-source approach for the mapping of planetary landforms using artificial intelligence.
Jan 10th, 2023
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A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way's halo a million light years away.
Jan 10th, 2023
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Scientists use CEERS Survey to examine the structure and morphology of 850 high-redshift galaxies.
Jan 9th, 2023
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Physicists used spacecraft data to confirm an important theory of plasma physics that improves our understanding of space weather.
Jan 6th, 2023
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Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved - the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
Dec 20th, 2022
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Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies, challenging assumptions about the number and environment of stars are in the universe.
Dec 17th, 2022
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Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.
Dec 16th, 2022
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Astronomers have found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are water worlds, planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume.
Dec 16th, 2022
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Scientists studied the cellular processes that regulate the adaptation of microorganisms to perchlorates. If microorganisms could genetically adapt their stress response to this salt, which occurs in some deserts and on Mars, their survival on the red planet might be possible.
Dec 15th, 2022
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Machine learning has deduced the rules governing the relationship between the growth of a galaxy and the growth of the supermassive black hole at its center. The tight correlation between the two growth rates found in this research confirms a decades-old theory.
Dec 15th, 2022
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When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an extraterrestrial whirlwind.
Dec 14th, 2022
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The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a long distance in the Milky Way without being absorbed, shows the international ALICE collaboration.
Dec 13th, 2022
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Use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars.
Dec 13th, 2022
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