NASA’s Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Earth’s heavy metals result of supernova explosion, University of Guelph Research Reveals
That gold on your ring finger is stellar - and not just in a complimentary way. In a finding that ...
Hubble observes tiny galaxy with big heart
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big ...
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
Few sun-like stars have these massive planets, making our sun unusualCredit: GPIES team, with animation by Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley. ...
Astrophysicist announces her discovery that could rewrite story of how galaxies die
Credit: Michelle Vigeant LAWRENCE -- At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, Allison Kirkpatrick, ...
Table salt compound spotted on Europa
Finding prompts a rethinking of the icy moon's subsurface ocean A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on ...
New evidence shows crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc
RIT scientist Sukanya Chakrabarti developing methods to hunt for the darkest dwarf galaxiesCredit: Sukanya Chakrabarti/RIT The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy ...
A deorbit kit for satellites based on low work-function tethers
Project E.T.PACK, coordinated by UC3MCredit: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Satellites equipped with this kit in the future will ...
The sun may have a dual personality, simulations suggest
Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered hints that humanity's favorite star may have a dual personality, with intriguing discrepancies in ...
Rare ‘superflares’ could one day threaten Earth
Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the most brilliant pyrotechnic displays ...
Saturn’s moon Mimas, a snowplough in the planet’s rings
Credit: Cassini, Dante, Baillié and Noyelles The Solar System's second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best ...
Citizen scientists re-tune Hubble’s galaxy classification
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of ...
Technique pulls interstellar magnetic fields within easy reach
MADISON, Wis. -- A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic ...
Breakthrough Watch and the European Southern Observatory achieve ‘first light’ on upgraded planet-finding instrument to search for Earth-like planets in nearest star system
Credit: A. Ghizzi Panizza/ESO Newly-built planet-finding instrument installed on Very Large Telescope, Chile, begins 100-hour observation of nearby stars Alpha ...
New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe
Toxic gases limit the types of life we could find on habitable worldsCredit: (Graphic courtesy of Christopher Reinhard/Georgia Tech) RIVERSIDE, ...
What if dark matter is lighter? Report calls for small experiments to broaden the hunt
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists are already pursuing new experiments to probe for low-mass dark matter particlesCredit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley ...
How acids behave in ultracold interstellar space
Solvated acids tend to release a proton; however, they display more complex behavior under space conditions Bochum-based researchers from the ...
Mature galaxy mesmerizes in new Hubble view
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera ...
Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole
This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica ...
Radio ridge between two galaxy clusters bridges intergalactic space
Intergalactic magnetic fields connect two merging galaxy clusters, according to a new study, which reports the first discovery of a ...
