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Red Giant Betelgeuse was yellow some 2,000 years ago

Astrophysicists utilized observations from antiquity to prove, that Betelgeuse - the bright red giant star in the upper left of the constellation Orion - was yellow-orange some 2,000 years ago.

September 5, 2022 Read more

Webb telescope takes its first-ever direct image of distant world

For the first time, astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant.

September 2, 2022 Read more

MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet's thin atmosphere.

September 1, 2022 Read more

Why do galaxies stop making stars? A huge collision in space provides new clues

Merging galaxies may hurl away the gas that fuels new stars, according to a discovery by astronomers.

September 1, 2022 Read more

X-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected

Simple simulation accidentally leads to X-shaped galaxy for first time.

August 29, 2022 Read more

The sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discovers

Geological discoveries hint at conditions when life arose on Earth - and possibly on Mars.

August 26, 2022 Read more

An extrasolar world covered in water?

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary system located in the Draco constellation about 100 light-years from Earth.

August 24, 2022 Read more

What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time

While scientists have no evidence that wormholes actually exist in our world, they're good tools to help astrophysicists think about space and time. They may also answer age-old questions about what the universe looks like.

August 22, 2022 Read more

Looking inside a neutron star - new model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves

The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.

August 19, 2022 Read more

Sharpest image ever of Universe's most massive known star

Groundbreaking observation from Gemini Observatory suggests this and possibly other colossal stars are less massive than previously thought.

August 19, 2022 Read more

Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding

Astrophysicists lay out a method for how to use pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast our universe is expanding - and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it's going.

August 17, 2022 Read more

Mars model provides method for landing humans on Red Planet

A mathematical model developed by space medicine experts could be used to predict whether an astronaut can safely travel to Mars and fulfil their mission duties upon stepping foot on the Red Planet.

August 17, 2022 Read more

Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores

A rare find - a 'warm Neptune' around a bright blue star - offers clues to the dearth of Hot Neptunes.

August 12, 2022 Read more

Betelgeuse recovers - for now

New observations of the red supergiant suggest that the 2019 mass ejection of its atmosphere might significantly affects its fate.

August 11, 2022 Read more

Surprise, surprise: Subsurface water on Mars defy expectations

A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.

August 11, 2022 Read more

One more clue to the Moon's origin

Researchers report findings that show that the Moon inherited the indigenous noble gases of helium and neon from Earth's mantle. The discovery adds to the already strong constraints on the currently favoured 'Giant Impact' theory that hypothesizes the Moon was formed by a massive collision between Earth and another celestial body.

August 11, 2022 Read more

DARPA project to give satellites a shared, optical language

New Space-BACN effort will enable communication between low orbiting satellites - both with each other and their partners on the ground.

August 10, 2022 Read more

Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics

Scientists have proven that when bodies exist in curved spaces, it turns out that they can in fact move without pushing against something.

August 10, 2022 Read more