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Unleashed magnetic power

The spots on the surface of our Sun bear witness to the activity in its interior.

August 23, 2017 Read more

Turning human waste into plastic, nutrients could aid long-distance space travel

Imagine you're on your way to Mars, and you lose a crucial tool during a spacewalk. Not to worry, you'll simply re-enter your spacecraft and use some microorganisms to convert your urine and exhaled carbon dioxide into chemicals to make a new one.

August 22, 2017 Read more

Astrophysicists predict Earth-like planet in star system only 16 light years away

Their computations revealed that an additional Earth-like planet with a dynamically stable configuration may be residing at a distance ranging from 0.25 to 2.0 astronomical unit (AU) from Gliese 832.

August 17, 2017 Read more

Cosmic magnifying lens reveals inner jets of black holes

New radio observations show clumps of gas streaming from supermassive black hole.

August 15, 2017 Read more

A fleeting blue glow

Observations of a supernova colliding with a nearby companion star take astrophysicists by surprise.

August 14, 2017 Read more

New 3-D simulations show how galactic centers cool their jets

Theories and models show how instabilities develop in extreme energy releases from black holes.

August 14, 2017 Read more

The implications of cosmic silence

A mathematician argues that species go extinct soon after harnessing technology.

August 11, 2017 Read more

Lunar dynamo's lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years

Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon's ancient churning, molten core.

August 11, 2017 Read more

Galactic winds push researchers to probe galaxies at unprecedented scale (w/video)

To better understand how galactic wind affects star formation in galaxies, researchers turned to high-performance computing.

August 10, 2017 Read more

The sun's core rotates four times faster than its surface - here's why it matters

A team of astronomers have discovered that the core of our sun rotates about four times faster than the surface. It's in the middle of our solar system, on our cosmic doorstep, so how could we have missed that before? And why is it important?

August 10, 2017 Read more

The mystery of the pulsating blue stars

Astronomers discover new class of variable dwarf star.

August 9, 2017 Read more

New theory on the origin of dark matter

This new model proposes an alternative to the WIMP paradigm that is the subject of various experiments in current research.

August 8, 2017 Read more

Primordial black holes may have helped to forge heavy elements

Researchers offer another means by which stars could have produced heavy elements: tiny black holes that came into contact with and are captured by neutron stars, and then destroy them.

August 4, 2017 Read more

Standard model of the universe withstands most precise test by Dark Energy Survey

Astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological models.

August 3, 2017 Read more

New clue to solving the mystery of the sun's hot atmosphere

The elemental composition of the Sun's hot atmosphere known as the corona is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle, a team of scientists has revealed for the first time.

August 3, 2017 Read more

Hubble detects exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere

Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system, with an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron.

August 3, 2017 Read more

Running out of gas: Gas loss puts breaks on stellar baby boom

The stellar birthrate peaked around 10 billion years ago, and has declined steadily since then. However, the cause of the declining stellar birthrate is still not well understood.

August 2, 2017 Read more

Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes' (w/video)

Scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical precursors of life.

July 28, 2017 Read more