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Looking inside a neutron star - new model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves

The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.

August 19, 2022 Read more

Sharpest image ever of Universe's most massive known star

Groundbreaking observation from Gemini Observatory suggests this and possibly other colossal stars are less massive than previously thought.

August 19, 2022 Read more

Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding

Astrophysicists lay out a method for how to use pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast our universe is expanding - and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it's going.

August 17, 2022 Read more

Mars model provides method for landing humans on Red Planet

A mathematical model developed by space medicine experts could be used to predict whether an astronaut can safely travel to Mars and fulfil their mission duties upon stepping foot on the Red Planet.

August 17, 2022 Read more

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

A rare find - a 'warm Neptune' around a bright blue star - offers clues to the dearth of Hot Neptunes.

August 12, 2022 Read more

Betelgeuse recovers - for now

New observations of the red supergiant suggest that the 2019 mass ejection of its atmosphere might significantly affects its fate.

August 11, 2022 Read more

Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations

A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.

August 11, 2022 Read more

One more clue to the Moon's origin

Researchers report findings that show that the Moon inherited the indigenous noble gases of helium and neon from Earth's mantle. The discovery adds to the already strong constraints on the currently favoured 'Giant Impact' theory that hypothesizes the Moon was formed by a massive collision between Earth and another celestial body.

August 11, 2022 Read more

DARPA project to give satellites a shared, optical language

New Space-BACN effort will enable communication between low orbiting satellites - both with each other and their partners on the ground.

August 10, 2022 Read more

Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics

Scientists have proven that when bodies exist in curved spaces, it turns out that they can in fact move without pushing against something.

August 10, 2022 Read more

Do 'bouncing universes' have a beginning?

Some cosmological models propose that the universe expands and contracts in infinite cycles, but new research finds a crucial flaw in the latest version of this theory.

August 9, 2022 Read more

First-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk

Scientists studying planet formation have made the first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk. What's more, the detection also suggests the presence of a very young exoplanet.

August 9, 2022 Read more

No trace of dark matter halos

According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull on galaxies in the vicinity. A new study challenges this view of the Universe.

August 5, 2022 Read more

Turning Martian air, dirt and sunlight into iron

Scientists have published the first detailed study of its kind on metal production on another planet.

August 5, 2022 Read more

Out with a bang: Explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time in millimeter light

Scientists have for the first time recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. The team also confirmed this flash of light to be one of the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts ever observed.

August 3, 2022 Read more

Webb captures stellar gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy's central black hole.

August 2, 2022 Read more

More supernova dust in the solar system

Ion probe studies and improved stellar nucleosynthesis models are providing new insights into our solar system's stardust.

August 2, 2022 Read more

Scientists reveal distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago - further back in time than ever before

New findings offer the tantalizing possibility that the fundamental rules of cosmology may differ when examining the early history of our universe.

August 1, 2022 Read more