Proposal for picogram-scale probes to explore nearby stars
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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Curved spacetime in the lab
Researchers simulate an entire family of universes with curvature in ultracold quantum gases.
Dec 10th, 2022
Read moreSpace and time: Clocks to detect dark matter
Scientists study ways to send atomic clocks closer to the sun to understand the universe's greatest mysteries
Dec 10th, 2022
Read moreMicrobial miners could help humans colonize the moon and Mars
The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile's Atacama Desert has inspired engineers to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars.
Dec 9th, 2022
Read moreThe messy death of a star
Around 2500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, one of the first five image packages from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Dec 9th, 2022
Read moreDeep-space discovery: Oddball gamma-ray burst forces revision of theoretical framework
A long-duration gamma-ray burst observed in late 2021 revealed signatures typically associated with short-duration bursts, forcing puzzled scientists to create a new model for the origin of this unique burst.
Dec 8th, 2022
Read moreRobots can identify and remove space junk
There is a lot of space junk orbiting the Earth. Researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will make this possible.
Dec 5th, 2022
Read moreThe James Webb telescope produces an unparalleled view of the ghostly light in galaxy clusters
Thanks to its efficiency at infrared wavelengths and the sharpness of the images of the JWST, researchers have been able to explore the intracluster light from SMACS-J0723.3-7327 with an unprecedented level of detail.
Dec 3rd, 2022
Read moreMysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Dec 1st, 2022
Read moreA black hole has been seen ripping apart a star
Astronomers have been able to piece together data showing that a supermassive black hole has been snacking on a nearby star.
Nov 30th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers observe intra-group light - the elusive glow between distant galaxies
Pioneering a new technique, researchers have peered into the extremely faint light that exists between galaxies to describe the history and state of orphan stars.
Nov 24th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers observe innermost structure of quasar jet
An international team of scientists has observed the narrowing of a quasar jet for the first time by using a network of radio telescopes across the world. The results suggest that the narrowing of the jet is independent of the activity level of the galaxy which launched it.
Nov 22nd, 2022
Read moreWebb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world's skies.
Nov 22nd, 2022
Read moreNew collaboration to probe physical reality's quantum 'glue'
An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the 'glue' that holds the universe together - the strong nuclear force.
Nov 18th, 2022
Read moreBlack holes in eccentric orbit
Astronomers reconstructed the origin of an unusual gravitational wave signal that may result from the merger of two massive black holes that captured each other in their gravitational field and then collided while spinning around each other in a rapid, eccentric motion.
Nov 18th, 2022
Read moreSpace exploration goes underground
Is there life in Martian caves? It's a good question, but it's not the right question - yet. An international collaboration of scientists has dozens of questions we need asked and answered. Once we figure out how to study caves on the Moon, Mars and other planetary bodies, then we can return to that question.
Nov 16th, 2022
Read moreRolling dice to gain insights into planets and stars
Using a simulation method based on random numbers scientists were able to describe the properties of warm dense hydrogen as accurately as never before.
Nov 15th, 2022
Read moreBlack holes don't always power gamma-ray bursts, new research shows
Space scientists may need to rethink how gamma-ray bursts are formed after new research shows new-born supramassive stars, not black holes, are sometimes responsible for these huge extragalactic bursts of energy.
Nov 11th, 2022
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