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Scientists invent a method for predicting solar radio flux for two years ahead
Scientists developed a method and software called RESONANCE to predict the solar radio flux activity for 1-24 months ahead. RESONANCE will serve to improve the specification of satellite orbits, re-entry services, modeling of space debris evolution, and collision avoidance maneuvers.
May 12, 2021 Read more
New study identifies five double-sun planets that could support life
Researchers investigated the effects of double-star and giant planets on habitable zones of nine systems observed by the Kepler mission.
May 10, 2021 Read more
In the emptiness of space, Voyager I detects plasma 'hum'
Voyager 1's instruments have detected the constant drone of interstellar gas (plasma waves).
May 10, 2021 Read more
How planets form controls elements essential for life
The prospects for life on a given planet depend not only on where it forms but also how, according to scientists.
May 10, 2021 Read more
Planet formation may start earlier than previously thought
Rings in protoplanetary systems may develop much earlier than in conventional scenarios of planet formation.
May 7, 2021 Read more
Star formation is triggered by cloud-cloud collisions, study finds
Researchers have found that collisions of gas clouds hovering in space bring about the birth of star clusters.
May 7, 2021 Read more
Teamwork in space: Robots pave the way for crewed lunar missions and sustainable space research (w/video)
To survive on the moon, humans need a lot of resources. Transporting them to the earth's satellite by spaceship would be extremely expensive. There is a much cheaper and sustainable solution: special manufacturing plants that can extract and process raw materials directly on site.
May 6, 2021 Read more
Researchers create new lunar map to help guide future exploration missions
The map, along with proposed paths for robotic rovers, provides new details on a scientifically important region of the moon's south pole.
May 4, 2021 Read more
Hubble watches how a giant planet grows
The Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
April 30, 2021 Read more
Small galaxies likely played important role in evolution of the Universe
A new study by astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insight into how the Universe became reionized, a problem that astronomers have been trying to solve for years.
April 30, 2021 Read more
Octo-Tiger rapidly models stellar collisions
Astrophysicists have developed 'Octo-Tiger', a breakthrough astrophysics code to more efficiently model stellar collisions. The code simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to parallelise the code to achieve superior speeds.
April 29, 2021 Read more
Campfires on the Sun
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft detects a surprising number of tiny and bright flares in the gas atmosphere of our star.
April 28, 2021 Read more
The discovery of new millisecond pulsars
Astronomers have discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters of stars, known as globular clusters. Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, that spin up to 700 times per second.
April 28, 2021 Read more
Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
This is the first direct evidence of OH in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System. It shows not only that astronomers can detect this molecule in exoplanet atmospheres, but also that they can begin to understand the detailed chemistry of this planetary population.
April 27, 2021 Read more
Reading a message carried on a distant tide (w/video)
A high-energy neutrino that flung out from a star, ripped apart by a black hole, reveals something about the cosmic sources of these mysterious particles.
April 27, 2021 Read more
Star light, star bright...as explained by math
The evolving periodicity of the brightness of certain types of stars can now be described mathematically.
April 26, 2021 Read more
Hubble celebrates 31st birthday with giant star on the edge of destruction
The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
April 23, 2021 Read more
MOXIE creates oxygen on Mars
A NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
April 23, 2021 Read more