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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda

A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way's halo a million light years away.

January 10, 2023 Read more

James Webb Space Telescope reveals links between galaxies near and far

Scientists use CEERS Survey to examine the structure and morphology of 850 high-redshift galaxies.

January 9, 2023 Read more

Physicists confirm effective wave growth theory in space

Physicists used spacecraft data to confirm an important theory of plasma physics that improves our understanding of space weather.

January 6, 2023 Read more

Cosmological enigma of Milky Way's satellite galaxies solved

Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved - the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.

December 20, 2022 Read more

New study confirms the light from outside our galaxy brighter than expected

Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies, challenging assumptions about the number and environment of stars are in the universe.

December 17, 2022 Read more

Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape

Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.

December 16, 2022 Read more

Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water

Astronomers have found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are water worlds, planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume.

December 16, 2022 Read more

What microorganisms on Mars would need to survive

Scientists studied the cellular processes that regulate the adaptation of microorganisms to perchlorates. If microorganisms could genetically adapt their stress response to this salt, which occurs in some deserts and on Mars, their survival on the red planet might be possible.

December 15, 2022 Read more

Machine learning reveals how black holes grow

Machine learning has deduced the rules governing the relationship between the growth of a galaxy and the growth of the supermassive black hole at its center. The tight correlation between the two growth rates found in this research confirms a decades-old theory.

December 15, 2022 Read more

Scientists get first-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars

When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an extraterrestrial whirlwind.

December 14, 2022 Read more

ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter

The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a long distance in the Milky Way without being absorbed, shows the international ALICE collaboration.

December 13, 2022 Read more

Proposal for picogram-scale probes to explore nearby stars

Use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars.

December 13, 2022 Read more

Curved spacetime in the lab

Researchers simulate an entire family of universes with curvature in ultracold quantum gases.

December 10, 2022 Read more

Space and time: Clocks to detect dark matter

Scientists study ways to send atomic clocks closer to the sun to understand the universe's greatest mysteries

December 10, 2022 Read more

Microbial miners could help humans colonize the moon and Mars

The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile's Atacama Desert has inspired engineers to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars.

December 9, 2022 Read more

The messy death of a star

Around 2500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, one of the first five image packages from the James Webb Space Telescope.

December 9, 2022 Read more

Deep-space discovery: Oddball gamma-ray burst forces revision of theoretical framework

A long-duration gamma-ray burst observed in late 2021 revealed signatures typically associated with short-duration bursts, forcing puzzled scientists to create a new model for the origin of this unique burst.

December 8, 2022 Read more

Robots can identify and remove space junk

There is a lot of space junk orbiting the Earth. Researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will make this possible.

December 5, 2022 Read more