Bizarre Things: Space & Time
May 7, 2024
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May 6, 2024 — Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored as much water as Earth. Today, almost all of it has disappeared. A new study may help to explain ...
May 6, 2024 — Astronomers observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The findings may shed light on how the earliest supermassive black holes became so massive despite having a relatively short amount of cosmic time ...
May 6, 2024 — New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest ...
May 2, 2024 — Recent reports of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably sparked excitement. A new study challenges this finding, but also outlines how the telescope might verify the presence of the life-produced ...
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May 1, 2024 — A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a potential 'cosmic glitch' in the universe's gravity, explaining its strange behavior on a cosmic ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have successfully used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Astronomers have confirmed that differences in binary stars' composition can originate from chemical variations in the cloud of stellar material from which they formed. The results help explain why ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu, some probably due to micrometeoroid ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, uninhabitable Venus offers vital lessons about the potential for life on other ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf, an unexpected finding for such a cold and isolated world. The findings suggest that this brown dwarf might generate aurorae similar to ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new method using knot theory to find the optimal routes for future space missions without the need to waste ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. The team is the first to successfully reproduce the ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — In 2022, astronomers discovered the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) of all time. Now, astronomers confirm that a 'normal' supernova, the telltale sign of a stellar collapse, accompanied the ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated ...
Apr. 10, 2024 — Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Linking analyses of the moon's gravity field with models of its earliest evolution, scientists tell a story of the moon turning itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar -- the Universe's most powerful magnets -- has revealed an unexpectedly complex ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — New observations provide insights into whether the birth of the giant planets takes a similar course to that of ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — The CHEOPS space telescope is providing new information on the mysterious exoplanet WASP-76b. This ultra-hot giant is characterized by an asymmetry between the amount of light observed on its eastern ...
Apr. 4, 2024 — Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...
Apr. 3, 2024 — A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy ...
Apr. 2, 2024 — One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...
Mar. 28, 2024 — New research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days ...
Mar. 27, 2024 — A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Astronomers Uncover Methane Emission on a Cold Brown Dwarf
- 'Tube Map' Around Planets and Moons Made Possible by Knot Theory
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
- Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst of All Time Came from the Collapse of a Massive Star
- Stellar Winds of Three Sun-Like Stars Detected for the First Time
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Beautiful Nebula, Violent History: Clash of Stars Solves Stellar Mystery
- Twinkle Twinkle Baby Star, 'sneezes' Tell Us How You Are
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
- How the Moon Turned Itself Inside out
- Telescope Detects Unprecedented Behavior from Nearby Magnetar
- Inexplicable Flying Fox Found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster
Friday, April 5, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Persistent Hiccups in a Far-Off Galaxy Draw Astronomers to New Black Hole Behavior
- Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- Distant 'space Snowman' Unlocks Mystery of How Some Dormant Deep Space Objects Become 'ice Bombs'
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Sleeping Supermassive Black Holes Awakened Briefly by Shredded Stars
- Tiniest 'starquake' Ever Detected
- Scientists on the Hunt for Evidence of Quantum Gravity's Existence at the South Pole
Monday, March 25, 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Signs of Life Would Be Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons
- James Webb Space Telescope Captures the End of Planet Formation
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Icy Impacts: Planetary Scientists Use Physics and Images of Impact Craters to Gauge the Thickness of Ice on Europa
- Scientists Find One of the Most Ancient Stars That Formed in Another Galaxy
- Quantum Tornado Provides Gateway to Understanding Black Holes
- Astrophysicist's Research Could Provide a Hint in the Search for Dark Matter
Friday, March 15, 2024
- New Research Suggests That Our Universe Has No Dark Matter
- Protein Fragments ID Two New 'extremophile' Microbes--and May Help Find Alien Life
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
- Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 With NASA's Webb
- Nasa’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- Interstellar Signal Linked to Aliens Was Actually Just a Truck
- Baby Quasars: Growing Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth Around Dozens of Stars
- What Makes Black Holes Grow and New Stars Form? Machine Learning Helps Solve the Mystery
- Juno Spacecraft Measures Oxygen Production on Jupiter's Moon, Europa
Monday, March 4, 2024
- Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen
- Study Determines the Original Orientations of Rocks Drilled on Mars
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed
- Ultraviolet Radiation from Massive Stars Shapes Planetary Systems
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Ice Shell Thickness Reveals Water Temperature on Ocean Worlds
- Astronomers Measure Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Found
- Astronomers Reveal a New Link Between Water and Planet Formation
- Astronomers Discover Heavy Elements After Bright Gamma-Ray Burst from Neutron Star Merger
- Could Fiber Optic Cable Help Scientists Probe the Deep Layers of the Moon?
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- A New Beginning: The Search for More Temperate Tatooines
- Brightest and Fastest-Growing: Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
- Three Years Later, Search for Life on Mars Continues
- New Realistic Computer Model Will Help Robots Collect Moon Dust
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Little Groundwater Recharge in Ancient Mars Aquifer, According to New Models
- Black Hole at Center of the Milky Way Resembles a Football
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Evidence of Geothermal Activity Within Icy Dwarf Planets
- Diverse Ancient Volcanoes on Mars Discovered by Planetary Scientist May Hold Clues to Pre-Plate Tectonic Activity on Earth
- A Star Like a Matryoshka Doll: New Theory for Gravastars
Friday, February 9, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Mimas' Surprise: Tiny Moon of Saturn Holds Young Ocean Beneath Icy Shell
- Astrophysicists Crack the Case of 'disappearing' Sulphur in Planetary Nebulae
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
- Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
- Researchers Spying for Signs of Life Among Exoplanet Atmospheres
- Astronomers Spot 18 Black Holes Gobbling Up Nearby Stars
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Confirmation of Ancient Lake on Mars Builds Excitement for Perseverance Rover's Samples
- Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge
- 'Old Smokers' and 'squalling Newborns' Among Hidden Stars Spotted for First Time
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? MeerKAT Uncovers a Mysterious Object in Milky Way
- Moon Rocks With Unique Dust Found
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Astronomers Detect Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed
- The Metalens Meets the Stars
- Space Solar Power Project Ends First in-Space Mission With Successes and Lessons
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
- NASA's Webb Discovers Dusty 'cat's Tail' In Beta Pictoris System
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- Unlocking the Secrets of a 'Hot Saturn' And Its Spotted Star
- 'Blob-Like' Home of Farthest-Known Fast Radio Burst Is Collection of Seven Galaxies
Monday, January 8, 2024
- Final Supernova Results from Dark Energy Survey Offer Unique Insights Into the Expansion of the Universe
- Three Iron Rings in a Planet-Forming Disk
- Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe's Rare Radio Circles