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December 30, 2024
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Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the past 100 years, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A new study explores how variations in Mars' crustal thickness during its ancient history may have influenced the planet's magmatic evolution and hydrological systems. The research suggests that the ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ...
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Dec. 20, 2024 — Scientists have delivered the first measurements of Greenland Ice Sheet thickness change using data from ESA and NASA ice satellite missions. With ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — A study introduces a novel thermodynamic concept called the 'centotectic' and investigates the stability of liquids in extreme conditions -- critical information for determining the habitability of ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky. The Kinetic-scale Energy and momentum Transport experiment -- KiNET-X -- ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists are changing our understanding of climate and weather on Mars and providing critical insights into Earth's atmospheric processes as ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A brotherly research duo has discovered that when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces top quarks -- the heaviest known fundamental particles -- it regularly creates a property known as ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...
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Dec. 18, 2024 — Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists propose a 'remelting' of the Moon's surface 4.35 billion years ago due to the tidal pull of Earth causing widespread geological upheaval and intense ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cogni tion, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — The combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure and water vapor pressure on Mars means any liquid water found there would likely freeze, boil or evaporate immediately, making its presence ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet Trappist-1 b's nature. Until now, it was assumed to be a dark rocky planet ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's first attempts at interplanetary ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar ...
Dec. 13, 2024 — New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...
Dec. 11, 2024 — The Sun generates its tremendous energy through the process of nuclear fusion. At the same time it releases a continuous stream of neutrinos -- particles that serve as messengers of its internal ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — New research suggests that these ultra-high energy rays derive their energy from magnetic ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might erupt on the Red ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Photonic space-time crystals are materials that could increase the performance and efficiency of wireless communication or laser technologies. They feature a periodic arrangement of special materials ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe -- not a flaw in telescope measurements -- may be behind the decade-long mystery of why the universe is ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Supermassive Black Holes Halt Rapid Construction in an Ancient Celestial City
- Survey of 26,000 Dead Stars Confirms Key Details of Extreme Stellar Behavior
- Massive Black Hole in the Early Universe Spotted Taking a 'nap' After Overeating
- A 'remelting' Of Lunar Surface Adds a Wrinkle to Mystery of Moon's True Age
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Brain Cells Remain Healthy After a Month on the International Space Station, but Mature Faster Than Brain Cells on Earth
- Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Monday, December 16, 2024
- New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars
- Does the Exoplanet Trappist-1 B Have an Atmosphere After All?
- Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars
Friday, December 13, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- A New Galaxy, Much Like Our Own
- Eyes on the Sun: Naked Thallium-205 Ion Decay Reveals History Over Millions of Years
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
- Mars' Infamous Dust Storms Can Engulf the Entire Planet: A New Study Examines How
- Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster
- Space-Time Crystals, an Important Step Toward New Optical Materials
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here
- Astronomers Witness the in Situ Spheroid Formation in Distant Submillimetre-Bright Galaxies
- Researchers Use Data from Citizen Scientists to Uncover the Mysteries of a Blue Low-Latitude Aurora
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
- Massive Asteroid Impacts Did Not Change Earth's Climate in the Long Term
- Astronomers Close to Solving Mystery of How Universe's Giant Galaxies Formed
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
- Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth
- Researchers Deal a Blow to Theory That Venus Once Had Liquid Water on Its Surface
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Team Unlocks New Insights on Pulsar Signals
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles
Monday, November 25, 2024
- Uranus's Swaying Moons Will Help Spacecraft Seek out Hidden Oceans
- A Clue to What Lies Beneath the Bland Surfaces of Uranus and Neptune
- Novel Supernova Observations Grant Astronomers a Peek Into the Cosmic Past
- Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- A Nearby Supernova Could End the Search for Dark Matter
- Astronomers Take the First Close-Up Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Confinement May Affect How We Smell and Feel About Food
- Possible Origins of Dark Matter in 'Dark Big Bang' Scenario
- New Research Explores Volcanic Caves, Advancing the Search for Life on Mars
- New Idea May Crack Enigma of the Crab Nebula's 'zebra' Pattern
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Long-Sought Measurement of Exotic Beta Decay in Thallium Helps Extract the Timescale of the Sun's Birth
- Scientists Compile Library for Evaluating Exoplanet Water
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago
- Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
- Three Galactic 'red Monsters' In the Early Universe
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
- New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions
Monday, November 11, 2024
- Swirling Polar Vortices Likely Exist on the Sun
- Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes
- Off-the-Shelf Thermoelectric Generators Can Upgrade CO2 Into Chemicals: The Combination Could Help Us Colonize Mars
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Interstellar Methane as Progenitor of Amino Acids?
- Asteroid Grains Shed Light on the Outer Solar System's Origins
- Mighty Radio Bursts Linked to Massive Galaxies
Monday, November 4, 2024
- Satellite Imagery May Help Protect Coastal Forests from Climate Change
- Space: A New Frontier for Exploring Stem Cell Therapy
- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- Laser Measurements to Track Space Debris and Observe Water Masses
- Faster Space Communication With Record-Sensitive Receiver
- One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe
- Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Scientists Discover Molecules That Store Much of the Carbon in Space
- Dandelion-Shaped Supernova and Zombie Star
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- NRL Coronagraph Captures Unique Images of a Dusty Comet
- Rocky Planets Orbiting Small Stars Could Have Stable Atmospheres Needed to Support Life
- Physicists Discover First 'black Hole Triple'
- Ultra-Small Spectrometer Yields the Power of a 1,000 Times Bigger Device
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory
- Can Cell Phone Signals Help Land a Plane?
Monday, October 21, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Out-of-This-World Simulation Key to Collecting Moon Dust
- Are Nearby Planets Sending Radio Signals to Each Other?
- It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
- The Origin of Most Meteorites Finally Revealed
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle
- Simulated Mission to Mars: Survey of Lichen Species
Monday, October 14, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
- How Did the Building Blocks of Life Arrive on Earth?
- 'Inside-Out' Galaxy Growth Observed in the Early Universe
- Researchers Find Clues to the Mysterious Heating of the Sun's Atmosphere
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 'Islands' Of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
- Lightning Strikes Kick Off a Game of Electron Pinball in Space