Vital Clues Revealed About Recycling in the Evolution of Life in Our Universe
New research by University of Kent astrophysicists reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating…
New research by University of Kent astrophysicists reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating…
NASA’s InSight lander, which is on a mission to explore the deep interior of Mars, positioned its robotic arm this past weekend to assist the…
The galaxy pictured in this Hubble image has an especially evocative name: the Medusa merger. Often referred to by its somewhat drier New General Catalogue…
Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped network of…
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Piolneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
New research conducted at the University of Sussex has simulated dark matter in a new way for the first time, disrupting conventional thinking about the…
New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings are the…
Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. The unusual system was captured by several observatories, including three NASA…
Last night, NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver — extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as…
Put an ear to the ground on Mars and you’ll be rewarded with a symphony of sounds. Granted, you’ll need superhuman hearing, but NASA’s InSight…
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way into…
An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion…
Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas. The massive galaxy, which is about…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation…
Some relationships are written in the stars. That’s definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has for the first time seen the aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart by a supermassive…
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Astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University have published research indicating that blasts that create gamma-ray…