Earth-like exoplanets unlikely to be another 'pale blue dot'
It is tempting to assume that a second Earth would be just like ours, but new modelling results suggest that this is not likely to be the case.
Sep 20th, 2022
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It is tempting to assume that a second Earth would be just like ours, but new modelling results suggest that this is not likely to be the case.
Sep 20th, 2022
Read moreA newly discovered exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star nearly 100 light years away from Earth could be a water world, according to a new study.
Sep 17th, 2022
Read moreNuclear 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.
Sep 16th, 2022
Read moreA 'grazing encounter' may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn's rings, a new study suggests.
Sep 15th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers have developed a new technique to identify small planets hidden in protoplanetary disks.
Sep 14th, 2022
Read moreAn 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.
Sep 13th, 2022
Read moreA 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.
Sep 9th, 2022
Read moreResearchers found that oxygen boosts this exotic precipitation, revealing a new path to make nanodiamonds here on Earth.
Sep 7th, 2022
Read moreNicknamed 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.
Sep 7th, 2022
Read moreA 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.
Sep 6th, 2022
Read moreResearchers 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.
Sep 6th, 2022
Read moreAstrophysicists 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.
Sep 5th, 2022
Read moreFor 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.
Sep 2nd, 2022
Read moreDay and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet's thin atmosphere.
Sep 1st, 2022
Read moreMerging galaxies may hurl away the gas that fuels new stars, according to a discovery by astronomers.
Sep 1st, 2022
Read moreSimple simulation accidentally leads to X-shaped galaxy for first time.
Aug 29th, 2022
Read moreGeological discoveries hint at conditions when life arose on Earth - and possibly on Mars.
Aug 26th, 2022
Read moreAn 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.
Aug 24th, 2022
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