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The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists has discovered new evidence that the subsurface ocean of Enceladus contains a key building block for life. The team directly detected phosphorus in the form of phosphates originating from the moon's ice-covered global ocean.
Jun 14th, 2023
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Scientists have managed to weigh - more precisely than any other technique - a galaxy hosting a quasar, thanks to the fact that it acts as a gravitational lens.
Jun 13th, 2023
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Researchers are working on sustainable technology to harvest solar power in space - which could supplement life support systems on the Moon and Mars.
Jun 10th, 2023
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A groundbreaking development in thin film technology promises to enhance the sensitivity of current and future gravitational wave detectors.
Jun 8th, 2023
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A new study has identified a chemically peculiar star in the galactic halo as clear evidence of the existence of pair-instability supernovae from very massive first stars in the early Universe.
Jun 7th, 2023
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While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence the objects may have been erroneously typecast as simple.
Jun 7th, 2023
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The laws of physics must have been different at the start of the universe than they are now, according to a mind-bending study conducted by astronomers, which provides clues to why stars, planets and life itself managed to form in the universe.
Jun 6th, 2023
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In a new analysis based on the latest telescope data, astronomers have discovered that a third of the planets around the most common stars in the galaxy could be in a goldilocks orbit close enough, and gentle enough, to hold onto liquid water - and possibly harbor life.
Jun 6th, 2023
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A peek into a black hole's back yard.
Jun 5th, 2023
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New simulations suggest, for the first time, that cocoons of debris around dying stars likely emit gravitational waves.
Jun 5th, 2023
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Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth - the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist.
Jun 5th, 2023
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Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole.
Jun 2nd, 2023
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If an alien civilization wanted to communicate with other civilizations throughout the Milky Way, the galaxy's core holds potential as a strategic site for a beacon.
May 30th, 2023
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Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn and its rings.
May 30th, 2023
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Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.
May 30th, 2023
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The world's most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today in the form of the 'light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS II.
May 23rd, 2023
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Researchers have observed the X-ray emission of the most luminous quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history, known as SMSS J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short. The new perspective sheds light on the inner workings of quasars and how they interact with their environment.
May 19th, 2023
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Astronomers discover a second 'impossible' ring around the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar
May 19th, 2023
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