At the heart of planets, extreme states are to be found: temperatures of thousands of degrees, pressures a million times greater than atmospheric pressure. They can therefore only be explored directly to a limited extent - which is why the expert community is trying to use sophisticated experiments to recreate equivalent extreme conditions.
Oct 5th, 2021
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Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter - a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain - the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized.
Oct 5th, 2021
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When it comes to directly imaging Earth-like exoplanets orbiting faraway stars, seeing isn't always believing. A new study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in the same solar system.
Sep 30th, 2021
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Studies of the asteroid Vesta provide new findings on the formation of Earth-like planets.
Sep 30th, 2021
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A new project is investigating the role pulsars play in creating galactic, high-energy cosmic rays.
Sep 29th, 2021
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Astronomers documented a fatal encounter between an unlucky star and an intermediate-mass black hole.
Sep 28th, 2021
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When the universe was about 3 billion years old, just 20% of its current age, it experienced the most prolific period of star birth in its history. But when astronomers gazed toward cosmic objects in this period, they found something odd: six early, massive, 'dead' galaxies that had run out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars.
Sep 22nd, 2021
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The idea that 'space is getting crowded' has been around for a few years now, but just how crowded is it? And how crowded is it going to get?
Sep 17th, 2021
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Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma-rays that until now had not been associated with a known origin. Gamma rays are one of the most energetic forms of light in the universe, and Aussie researchers say they have been able to pinpoint how they form.
Sep 16th, 2021
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Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy's Apennine Mountains.
Sep 15th, 2021
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Scientists connect the dots between where planets form and what they're made of.
Sep 15th, 2021
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Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million dollars - making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along with the blood, sweat and tears of astronauts.
Sep 14th, 2021
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Aerospace and mining engineers are mapping out a plan for harvesting the moon's resources using autonomous robot swarms and new excavation techniques.
Sep 10th, 2021
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An international team of researchers has generated an entire virtual universe, and made it freely available on the cloud to everyone. Uchuu (meaning 'Outer Space' in Japanese) is the largest and most realistic simulation of the Universe to date.
Sep 10th, 2021
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Is the best date for a manned mission to Mars the earliest date when we are ready? Not necessarily, suggests a new study.
Sep 7th, 2021
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The results provide a blueprint for finding such systems in the universe's quieter, emptier regions.
Sep 6th, 2021
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By taking advantage of a natural lens in space, astronomers have captured an unprecedented look at X-rays from a black hole system in the early universe.
Aug 31st, 2021
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Research reveals how star-making pollutes the cosmos.
Aug 30th, 2021
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