New research may help scientists unravel the physics of the solar wind
Understanding the solar wind can help scientists predict how it will affect Earth's satellites and astronauts in space.
Jan 15th, 2022
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Understanding the solar wind can help scientists predict how it will affect Earth's satellites and astronauts in space.
Jan 15th, 2022
Read moreA world-first study has revealed how space travel can cause lower red blood cell counts, known as space anemia. Analysis of 14 astronauts showed their bodies destroyed 54 percent more red blood cells in space than they normally would on Earth.
Jan 14th, 2022
Read moreObservations of a hot Jupiter may also advance our understanding of planet origins and evolution.
Jan 14th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers have found three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are dangerously close to being 'swallowed up' by their host stars. The discovery gives new insight into how planetary systems evolve over time, helping to reveal the fate of solar systems like our own.
Jan 13th, 2022
Read moreInternational researchers have found a new candidate for an exomoon - a moon that orbits planets beyond the realm of our Solar System. If its exomoon status is confirmed, Kepler-1708 b-i - which is 2.6 times larger than Earth - could represent a missing piece in the puzzle to understand the formation and evolution of planetary systems long ago in galaxies far, far away.
Jan 13th, 2022
Read moreDESI has already mapped out more galaxies than all previous 3D surveys combined - and it's just getting started.
Jan 13th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.
Jan 13th, 2022
Read moreResearchers find high-energy oxygen and sulfur ions in Jupiter's inner radiation belts - and a previously unknown ion source.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreIn the future, mass transportation will almost certainly involve self-driving vehicles. The aerospace industry is pushing that idea even further, all the way to space.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreAn international team of astronomers has announced the results of a comprehensive search for a background of low-frequency gravitational waves. These light-year-scale ripples, a consequence of general relativity, permeate all of spacetime and could originate from mergers of the most massive black holes in the Universe or from events occurring soon after the formation of the Universe in the Big Bang.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreAn international team of researchers has found that the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. The team analysed 15 years' worth of data to come to this conclusion.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreThe upcoming satellite experiment LiteBIRD is expected to probe the physics of the very early Universe if the primordial inflation happened at high energies. But now, scientists show it can also test inflationary scenarios operating at lower energies.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreAstrophysicists have developed computer simulations that simultaneously use multiple types of celestial matter to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how these colossal planets grow from tiny specks of dust.
Jan 12th, 2022
Read moreWhat they become afterwards depends on how big they were at birth - in other words the mass that they had when they were formed.
Jan 11th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers have identified a potential clue to how the universe became reionized after the Big Bang. The researchers identified a black hole, a million times as bright as our sun, that may have been similar to the sources that powered the universe's reionization.
Jan 10th, 2022
Read moreAstronomers discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star.
Jan 8th, 2022
Read moreDevoid of geological and atmospheric processes, asteroids provide a window onto the evolution of the solar system. But to really understand their secrets, scientists must know what's inside them.
Jan 7th, 2022
Read moreNo longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon.
Jan 6th, 2022
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