Teaching an old spacecraft new tricks to continue exploring the moon
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the ...
Tag: Astronomy
Astronomers confirm solar system’s most distant known object is indeed Farfarout
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based ...
Hubble uncovers concentration of small black holes
Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, in which stars are packed closely together. They are ...
A new way of forming planets
Credit: Image: Jean Favre CSCS. In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of ...
Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars
Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by University ...
Astronomers uncover mysterious origins of ‘super-Earths’
Study shows super-Earths are not leftovers of mini-Neptunes, challenging our understanding of planetary formationCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up ...
A new method to search for potentially habitable planets
New capabilities developed by an international team of astronomers make it possible to directly image planets that could potentially harbour ...
Can super-Earth interior dynamics set the table for habitability?
Are super-Earths capable of creating conditions that are hospitable for life to arise and thrive?Credit: Image is courtesy of Yingwei ...
Super-Earth atmospheres probed at Sandia’s Z machine
A step in the search for life elsewhere in the galaxyCredit: Artist image by Eric Lundin; Z firing photo by ...
Astronomers offer possible explanation for elusive dark-matter-free galaxies
UC Riverside-led study finds extreme tidal mass loss in dwarf galaxies formed in a simulationCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, ...
Embry-Riddle alumna helps unravel key mysteries of rare stars
Credit: Embry-Riddle/Jason Kadah Within the constellation Cygnus, an elderly star and its massive companion are having one last hurrah, flinging ...
Rare blast’s remains discovered in Milky Way’s center
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Nanjing Univ./P. Zhou et al. Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA Astronomers may have found our galaxy's first example of an unusual ...
Student astronomer finds galactic missing matter
Distant galaxies used as 'locator pins' to detect 'invisible' cold clump of gasCredit: Mark Myers/OzGrav Astronomers have for the first ...
Emirates mission to reach Mars on Feb. 9 with instrument by NAU planetary scientist
EMIRS will provide a unique view of the lower and middle atmosphere of the planet, measuring the distribution of dust ...
At cosmic noon, puffy galaxies make stars for longer
Galaxies with extended disks maintain productivity, research revealsCredit: TNG Collaboration Massive galaxies with extra-large extended "puffy" disks produced stars for ...
Astronomers spot bizarre activity from one of the strongest magnets in the Universe
Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav. Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and CSIRO have just ...
High schoolers discover four exoplanets through Harvard and Smithsonian mentorship program
The high schoolers turned scientists published their findings this week, thanks to a research mentorship program at the Center for ...
Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide, new study shows
An image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. In September, a team led by ...
Extreme black holes have hair that can be combed
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from ...
CHEOPS finds unique planetary system
Credit: © ESO Musical notes that sound pleasant together can form a harmony. These notes are usually in a special ...
