Astronomers Explain Mystery Orbits in Outermost Reaches of Solar System
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth…
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Hubble Image of the Week – Peering Into The Past
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NASA’s Juno Reveals Two Massive Storms in Latest Flyby of Jupiter
Scientists Solve Long Standing Mystery: The Length of a Day on Saturn
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Saturn’s Rings Relatively New, Formed Much Later Than The Planet
Moon Data Reveal Large Increase In Asteroid Impact History
Hypernova Observations Reveal the Death of the Massive Stars
New Movie Shows the Propeller-Like Rotation of Ultima Thule
This movie shows the propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule in the seven hours between 20:00 UT (3 p.m. ET) on Dec. 31, 2018, and 05:01…
New Technique Identifies Electricity-Producing Bacteria
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup. Living in extreme conditions requires creative adaptations. For certain…
Scientists Reveal Orderly Chaos of Black Holes
An international consortium of scientists studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as part of the POLAR (GRB polarimeter) experiment has revealed that high-energy photon emissions from black…
Astronomers Reveal New Way Supermassive Black Holes Are “Fed”
Supermassive black holes weigh millions to billions times more than our sun and lie at the center of most galaxies. A supermassive black hole several…
Astronomers Discover Double Star System That Flipped Planet-Forming Disk
New research that included astronomers Luca Matra and David J. Wilner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics has found the first confirmed example of a…
Chandra Views Never Before Seen Behavior From Giant Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered behavior by a jet from a giant black hole that has never been seen before. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory they have…
Hubble Image of the Week – Messier Monday
This huge ball of stars — around 100 billion in total — is an elliptical galaxy located some 55 million light-years away from us. Known…
New Drug Combo Shows Promise for Treatment of Depression and Addiction
The combination of naltrexone and ketamine can help treat both symptoms of addiction and depression, a preliminary study by Yale University researchers suggests. Substance abuse…
GAIA Reveals For the First Time Crystallization in White Dwarfs
Data captured by ESA’s galaxy-mapping spacecraft Gaia has revealed for the first time how white dwarfs, the dead remnants of stars like our Sun, turn…