NASA Scientists Find Secret in Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data About the Ice Giant Uranus
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
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Hungry Stars Cannibalize Each Other in ‘Be X-Ray’ Systems
Top Space Officer: Launch of Space Force Largely Unaffected by Coronavirus
SpaceX Awarded Contract to Deliver Cargo to Lunar Gateway Orbital Outpost
Parallax Microlensing Free-Floating Stars in the Milky Way’s Bulge
Violent Neutron Star Collision Sends Gravitational Waves Shuddering Through the Fabric of Space and Time
Hubble Hooks a Magnificent One-Arm Barred Spiral Galaxy
NASA Perseverance Rover’s New Cargo: 10.9 Million Names – Next Stop: Mars
Quasar Tsunamis Discovered – Highest Energy Outflows Ever Witnessed in the Universe
Cosmic Bombs and Controversy: A New Theory of Magnetar Formation
Magnetars are neutron stars endowed with the strongest magnetic fields observed in the Universe, but their origin remains controversial. In a study published in Science…
Dark Matter Decay Ruled Out as Source of Mysterious Electromagnetic Signals Detected From Nearby Galaxies
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of…
European Space Agency Scales Down Mission Operations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany. The new…
Superconductivity Discovered in Meteorites – Could Be Superconducting in Extraterrestrial Environments
Scientists at UC San Diego and Brookhaven Laboratory in New York went searching for superconducting materials where researchers have had little luck before. Setting their…
Cataclysmic Binaries: Observable Novae Are Just “Tip of the Iceberg”
New simulation-based study on sleeping cataclysmic binaries supports contested 35-year-old predictions, shows that observable novae are just “tip of the iceberg.” Almost 35 years ago,…
Solar System’s Turbulent Formation Quickly Gave Way to Current Planetary Configuration
Model developed by Brazilian researchers shows chaotic phase that placed objects in current orbits beginning within first 100 million years after formation of giant planets….
Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes Shortly After the Big Bang – Explanation Discovered
These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were already present; a new study…
Martian Climate Change: Water Could Disappear From Red Planet Faster Than Expected
The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory, as well as past observations, would suggest. The gradual disappearance of water (H2O)…
Gravitational-Waves and Nuclear Physics Used to Obtain Best Measurement of Neutron Star Size
International team uses a novel approach combining gravitational-wave observations, multi-messenger astronomy, and nuclear physics to obtain the best measurement of neutron star size to date….