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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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.
Sep 17th, 2022
Read moreRecord-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.
Sep 16th, 2022
Read moreSaturn'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.
Sep 15th, 2022
Read moreIt'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.
Sep 14th, 2022
Read moreSimulation 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.
Sep 13th, 2022
Read moreIs 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.
Sep 9th, 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.
Sep 7th, 2022
Read moreA 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.
Sep 7th, 2022
Read moreMartian 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.
Sep 6th, 2022
Read moreResearchers 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.
Sep 6th, 2022
Read moreRed 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.
Sep 5th, 2022
Read moreWebb 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.
Sep 2nd, 2022
Read moreMOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet's thin atmosphere.
Sep 1st, 2022
Read moreWhy 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.
Sep 1st, 2022
Read moreX-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected
Simple simulation accidentally leads to X-shaped galaxy for first time.
Aug 29th, 2022
Read moreThe 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.
Aug 26th, 2022
Read moreAn 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.
Aug 24th, 2022
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