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Scientists discover super-Earth likely covered in water

A newly discovered exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star nearly 100 light years away from Earth could be a water world, according to a new study.

September 17, 2022 Read more

Record-breaking radiation detection pins down element formation in stellar novae

Nuclear physicists have now determined an important and challenging proton-capture reaction rate. Proton capture involves the collision of an atomic nucleus and one or more protons to create a heavier nucleus.

September 16, 2022 Read more

Saturn's rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon

A 'grazing encounter' may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn's rings, a new study suggests.

September 15, 2022 Read more

It's a planet: new evidence of baby planet in the making

Astronomers have developed a new technique to identify small planets hidden in protoplanetary disks.

September 14, 2022 Read more

Simulation aids the search for the origin of cosmic rays

An international research team has developed a computer programme that can simulate the transport of cosmic rays through space. The researchers hope it will help them solve the mystery of the sources of cosmic rays.

September 13, 2022 Read more

Is over-eating to blame for bulges in Milky Way bar?

A new simulation conducted on the world's most powerful supercomputer dedicated to astronomy has produced a testable scenario to explain the appearance of the bar of the Milky Way.

September 9, 2022 Read more

'Diamond rain' on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought

Researchers found that oxygen boosts this exotic precipitation, revealing a new path to make nanodiamonds here on Earth.

September 7, 2022 Read more

A cosmic tarantula, caught by the Webb telescope

Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for the appearance of its dusty filaments in previous telescope images, the nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation.

September 7, 2022 Read more

Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars

A small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with a titanium alloy made a stronger, high-performance material in a 3D-printing process that could one day be used on Mars to make tools or rocket parts.

September 6, 2022 Read more

Researchers use gamma rays to detect small neighboring galaxy filled with Dark Matter

Researchers have used giant lobes of gamma radiation to find that a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way filled with dark matter, but whose emissions are more likely the result of millisecond pulsars blasting out cosmic particles.

September 6, 2022 Read more

Red Giant Betelgeuse was yellow some 2,000 years ago

Astrophysicists utilized observations from antiquity to prove, that Betelgeuse - the bright red giant star in the upper left of the constellation Orion - was yellow-orange some 2,000 years ago.

September 5, 2022 Read more

Webb telescope takes its first-ever direct image of distant world

For the first time, astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant.

September 2, 2022 Read more

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.

September 1, 2022 Read more

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.

September 1, 2022 Read more

X-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected

Simple simulation accidentally leads to X-shaped galaxy for first time.

August 29, 2022 Read more

The 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.

August 26, 2022 Read more

An 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.

August 24, 2022 Read more

What 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.

August 22, 2022 Read more