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Astronomers found a likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System

Astronomersl have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet around a nearby small red dwarf star that appears to be carpeted with volcanoes.

May 17, 2023 Read more

Temperature of solar flares helps understand nature of solar plasma

A new study simulated dozens of solar flares and showed that analysis of the Lyman Continuum spectrum formed by hydrogen ionization and recombination can be used for diagnosis of the solar plasma.

May 16, 2023 Read more

Astronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system

High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf show a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter.

May 15, 2023 Read more

Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main belt comet

Using Webb's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas - specifically water vapor - around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved in that region.

May 15, 2023 Read more

Astronomers discover twisted fields around mysterious fast radio burst

Learn about FRB 20190520B, the first continuously active repeating FRB, and its significant implications for the fields of astronomy and physics.

May 12, 2023 Read more

Astronomers reveal the largest cosmic explosion ever seen

The explosion is more than ten times brighter than any known supernova and three times brighter than the brightest tidal disruption event, where a star falls into a supermassive black hole.

May 12, 2023 Read more

Hidden supermassive black holes brought to life by galaxies on collision course

Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of energy when they are inside galaxies that are expected to collide with a neighbouring galaxy.

May 11, 2023 Read more

Researchers find new approach to explore earliest universe dynamics with gravitational waves

Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic 'lumps' of the inflaton field that drove the early Universe's rapid expansion.

May 11, 2023 Read more

Galactic bubbles are more complex than imagined

Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center.

May 9, 2023 Read more

Webb looks for Fomalhaut's asteroid belt and finds much more

Astronomers imaged the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light. But to their surprise, the dusty structures are much more complex than the asteroid and Kuiper dust belts of our solar system.

May 8, 2023 Read more

Precision mass measurements of nuclei reveal neutron star properties

Scientists measured the masses of several key nuclei with high-precision by employing a state-of-the-art storage-ring mass spectrometry technique. Using the new mass data, they investigated X-ray bursts on the surface of a neutron star, thus deepening the understanding of neutron star properties.

May 5, 2023 Read more

In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet

Scientists have observed hints of stars just before, and shortly after, the act of consuming entire planets, but they have never caught one in the act until now.

May 4, 2023 Read more

Can ET detect us?

What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away?

May 3, 2023 Read more

On the trail of a mysterious force in space

An initial study of dark energy with eROSITA indicates that it is uniformly distributed in space and time.

May 3, 2023 Read more

Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

A team of astronomers has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.

April 29, 2023 Read more

Astronomers image for the first time a black hole expelling a powerful jet

An international team of scientists has used new millimeter-wavelength observations to produce an image that shows, for the first time, both the ring-like accretion structure around a black hole, where matter falls into the black hole, and the black hole's associated powerful relativistic jet.

April 26, 2023 Read more

Astronomers solve the 60-year mystery of quasars - the most powerful objects in the Universe

Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars - the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe - by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding.

April 26, 2023 Read more

Scientists discover rare element in exoplanet's atmosphere

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time. The researchers have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it possible to study them in more detail.

April 26, 2023 Read more