‘Are We Alone?’ 3D Climate Modeling Helps in Search for Life on Exoplanets
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets. This study is the first to include 3D chemistry to understand how…
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets. This study is the first to include 3D chemistry to understand how…
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environment. Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called “buckyballs”…
Is Earth the only habitable planet in the universe or are there more worlds somewhere out there that are capable of supporting life? And if…
In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 has been officially named Arrokoth, a Native…
Runaway Star Ejected From the Galactic Heart of Darkness Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h (~3.7 million m/h),…
Today, November 11, 2019, we’re in for a rare treat, as the innermost planet, Mercury, passes directly in front of the Sun for a few…
A rare transit of Mercury will take place on Monday, November 11, 2019, when the smallest planet in our Solar System will pass directly between…
It only happens about 13 times a century and won’t happen again until 2032, so don’t miss the transit of Mercury on Monday, November 11!…
International team detected radio bubbles with South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. A gigantic, balloon-like structure has been hiding in plain sight, right in the center of…
Three billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. The sun that shone on its oceans and continents was not as bright as it…
NASA’s Hubble Captures a Dozen Galaxy Doppelgangers The “funhouse mirror” has delighted carnival-goers for more than a century by twisting peoples’ images into wildly distorted…
Within a galaxy hosting around 300 billion stars, here the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a mere handful or two — just about enough…
Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers….
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a galaxy in the distant regions of the Universe which appears duplicated at least 12 times…
NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station detected a sudden spike of X-rays at about 10:04 p.m. EDT on…
Scientists from Germany and the United States have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of the art simulation of the evolution of galaxies. TNG50…
Molecular hydrogen (H2) makes up 99% of the cold dense gas in galaxies. So mapping where stars are born basically means measuring H2, which lacks…
The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen edgewise — arcs across a sea of stars in an incredible new mosaic of the…