Galactic bloodlines: Many nearby star clusters originate from only three 'families'
Supernova explosions from the formation history of these families also left traces on Earth.
Jun 10th, 2024
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Supernova explosions from the formation history of these families also left traces on Earth.
Jun 10th, 2024
Read moreAstronomers have captured what appears to be a snapshot of a massive collision of giant asteroids in Beta Pictoris, a neighboring star system known for its early age and tumultuous planet-forming activity.
Jun 10th, 2024
Read moreScientists have detected morning frost on some of the oldest and tallest volcanoes in the Solar System, on Mars, and estimate that up to 150,000 tonnes of ice could form on them.
Jun 10th, 2024
Read moreAstrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold, harsh interstellar clouds, a phenomenon not previously considered in geologic climate models.
Jun 10th, 2024
Read moreIn the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, physicists propose.
Jun 7th, 2024
Read moreJWST discovers a large variety of carbon-rich gases that serve as ingredients for future planets around a very low-mass star.
Jun 6th, 2024
Read moreAstronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen.
Jun 6th, 2024
Read moreNew findings suggest that our galaxy's last major collision was billions of years later than previously thought.
Jun 6th, 2024
Read moreA rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star's intense radiation somehow grew a puffy atmosphere instead - the latest in a string of discoveries forcing scientists to rethink theories about how planets age and die in extreme environments.
Jun 5th, 2024
Read moreScientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate - slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to date.
Jun 5th, 2024
Read moreNew model aims to explain the lack of miniature black holes in the early universe.
May 29th, 2024
Read moreMagnetic fields were detected in three massive, hot stars in the Magellanic Clouds, offering a unique chance to study young, massive stars and their stability limits.
May 29th, 2024
Read moreThe results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe.
May 23rd, 2024
Read moreAstronomers have made the rare and tantalising discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world.
May 23rd, 2024
Read moreWhile thousands of planets have been discovered around other stars, relatively little is known about them. A NASA catalog featuring 126 exotic, newly discovered worlds includes detailed measurements that allow for comparisons with our own solar system.
May 23rd, 2024
Read moreAstrophysicists explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. An unusual binary star system shows that massive stars can completely collapse into black holes without a supernova explosion.
May 21st, 2024
Read moreA surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy-like planet WASP-107 b.
May 20th, 2024
Read moreThis exoplanet is larger but seven times less massive than Jupiter and is the second least dense planet discovered to date.
May 14th, 2024
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