Exploring Common Envelope Outcomes of Binary Stellar Evolution
Binary neutron stars have been detected in the Milky Way as millisecond pulsars and twice outside the galaxy via gravitational-wave emission. Most of them have…
Astronomy
New Findings Suggest Venus Never Had Oceans, Conditions Needed for Life
Astrophysicists led by the UNIGE and the NCCR PlanetS have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth’s sister planet once had oceans….
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Arrives at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday (October 12, 2021), after a 16-day journey at sea. The 5,800-mile voyage took Webb…
How To Ship the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Space Telescope 5,800 Miles Across the Ocean
When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches, it will undergo one of the most harrowing deployment processes any spacecraft has ever endured. But before it…
Planet Discovered That Survived Its Star’s Death: A Crystal Ball Into Our Solar System’s Future
Giant gas planet orbiting a dead star gives glimpse into the predicted aftermath of our sun’s demise. Astronomers have discovered the very first confirmed planetary…
James Webb Space Telescope’s Journey to Space [Video]
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Webb’s flight into orbit will take place on an…
$10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Arrives at Europe’s Spaceport
The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived safely at Pariacabo harbor in French Guiana. ESA in close collaboration with NASA will now prepare this once-in-a-generation…
NASA Searching for Free-Floating Planets Using Artificial Intelligence and Gravitational Microlensing
Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that float freely…
Major 6-Year Search of the Outer Solar System Turns Up 461 New Objects (but No Planet 9)
In the near future, astronomers will benefit from the presence of next-generation telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Nancy Grace Roman…
Strange Radio Signals From the Heart of the Milky Way Tantalize Scientists
A variable signal aligned to the direction of the galactic center is tantalizing scientists. Astronomers have discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the…
Unexpected Radio Signals From Distant Stars Suggest Hidden Planets
Using the world’s most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets. The University…
Astrophysicists Explain Puzzling Results From Gravitational Wave Observatories
Astrophysicists Explain the Origin of Unusually Heavy Neutron Star Binaries Simulations of supernova explosions of massive stars paired with neutron stars can explain puzzling results…
Giant Cosmic Cotton Ball: A Dark Matter Deficient Galaxy
The galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 resides in a field of galaxies about sixty-five million light-years away. Its low mass, only about two hundred million solar-masses, makes…
Invisible Galactic Gale: Superwind From Spectacularly Energetic Supernova Explosions
NGC 4666 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic spiral galaxy lies about 80 million light-years away in…
NASA Images of the Week: Rogue Planet, Dangerous Dance, SpaceX & Electric Propulsion
Hubble Detects a Dangerous Dance This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined, they have a collective name –…
Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars
A discovery that provides new insight into how galaxies evolve. At the center of galaxies, like our own Milky Way, lie massive black holes surrounded…
A “Living Catalog” of Solar Stream Interactions
When a fast solar wind stream erupts from a coronal hole (a cooler region in the Sun’s atmosphere) and overtakes a slower moving solar wind…
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid Discovered Using the Powerful 570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera
About a kilometer across, space rock 2021 PH27 is the Sun’s nearest neighbor. Using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile, astronomers recently…