Astrophysics News
September 5, 2024
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Sep. 5, 2024 A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that underpin the workings of the universe and also could help drive future technology. A new study details how new insights into how ...
Sep. 4, 2024 It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a cosmic question mark, the result of a rare ...
Sep. 3, 2024 Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies shined their light into space, leaving behind an imperceptibly faint night light known as the cosmic optical background. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled to the edge of Earth's ...
Aug. 29, 2024 Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these galaxies indicate that the merger will form a monster galaxy, one of the brightest types of objects in the ...
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Aug. 28, 2024 Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not that long after the Big ...
Aug. 27, 2024 The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds -- objects with planet-like masses but untethered from any star's gravity -- including the lightest ever identified with a dusty ...
Aug. 27, 2024 Scientists have observed new details of how plasma interacts with magnetic fields, potentially providing insight into the formation of enormous ...
Aug. 27, 2024 Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent ...
Aug. 26, 2024 The new estimates of the parameters that form the basis of the standard model of cosmology are far more precise than previous approaches using the same galaxy distribution ...
Aug. 21, 2024 Who are we? Why are we here? We are stardust, the result of chemistry occurring throughout vast clouds of interstellar gas and dust. To better understand how that chemistry could create prebiotic ...
Aug. 26, 2024 According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make ...
Aug. 26, 2024 New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible ...
Aug. 26, 2024 Researchers have announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. The research is the first to search for signs of alien technology in galaxies beyond ...
Aug. 21, 2024 Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- an 'atom smasher' that recreates the conditions of ...
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Aug. 20, 2024 High-resolution images show large spots on the surface of ...
Aug. 20, 2024 Researchers have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray radiation from the black hole surroundings. The radiation originates from the combined effect of ...
Aug. 16, 2024 The dramatic dimming of a light source ~ 870 million light years away from Earth confirms the accuracy of a detailed ...
Aug. 14, 2024 A new study has found galaxies with more neighbors tend to be larger than their counterparts that have a similar shape and mass, but reside in less dense environments. The team, which used a ...
Aug. 5, 2024 A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much higher than previously ...
Aug. 2, 2024 Why does the universe contain matter and (virtually) no antimatter? Scientists have achieved an experimental breakthrough in this context. It can contribute to measuring the mass and magnetic moment ...
July 31, 2024 Astronomers have found that the rotational profile of a nearby star, V889 Herculis, differs considerably from that of the Sun. The observation provides insights into the fundamental stellar ...
July 30, 2024 Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of spaceships driven by compressing the four-dimensional spacetime for decades. Although this so-called 'warp drive' originates ...
July 30, 2024 By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing ...
July 29, 2024 AI-powered image recognition could give researchers a new tool in hunt for dark ...
July 25, 2024 In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT -- the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA's ...
July 24, 2024 Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ...
July 22, 2024 A study extends the definition of a habitable zone for planets to include their star's magnetic ...
July 22, 2024 Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. Their new calculations reveal that pairs of ...
July 21, 2024 Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life -- signatures of that life ...
July 18, 2024 Europe's next big space mission -- a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system -- is on course to launch at the end of 2026. PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits ...
July 18, 2024 So far, only about ten intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered in the entire universe. The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ...
July 17, 2024 In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures -- particularly deepfakes of people -- is becoming ...
July 16, 2024 Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe's 'timekeepers'. These pulsars -- neutron stars which rotate and emit ...
July 16, 2024 Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded winds up next to a star ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- New View of North Star Reveals Spotted Surface
- Explanation Found for X-Ray Radiation from Black Holes
Friday, August 16, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Monday, August 5, 2024
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
- What No One Has Seen Before -- Simulation of Gravitational Waves from Failing Warp Drive
- The Corona Is Weirdly Hot: Parker Solar Probe Rules out One Explanation
Monday, July 29, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
- Researchers Explore the Effects of Stellar Magnetism on Potential Habitability of Exoplanets
- Astrophysicists Uncover Supermassive Blackhole/dark Matter Connection in Solving the 'final Parsec Problem'
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
- Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope to Begin Search for Another Earth in 2026
- Another Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered at the Center of Our Galaxy
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- How Astronomers Are Using Pulsars to Observe Evidence of Dark Matter
- Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
- Bizarre 'garden Sprinkler-Like' Jet Is Spotted Shooting out of Neutron Star
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Scorching Storms on Distant Worlds Revealed
- JWST Unveils Stunning Ejecta and CO Structures in Cassiopeia A's Young Supernova
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary
- How the 'heart and Lungs' Of a Galaxy Extend Its Life
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Scientific Definition of a Planet Says It Must Orbit Our Sun; A New Proposal Would Change That
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Tracked Using Stellar Motions
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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Friday, July 5, 2024
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Monday, July 1, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
- Tiny Bright Objects Discovered at Dawn of Universe Baffle Scientists
- Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy
- Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
- A Hidden Treasure in the Milky Way -- Astronomers Uncover Ultrabright X-Ray Source
- Star Clusters Observed Within a Galaxy in the Early Universe
- First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Iron Meteorites Hint That Our Infant Solar System Was More Doughnut Than Dartboard
- Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Modified Gravity Theory: A Million Light Years and Still Going
- Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter
- Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
- Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe
- Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Come Into Focus Through Polarized Light
- How Did a Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Come to Be?
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as It Speeds Across the Milky Way
- NASA's Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science
- Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago
- Webb Telescope Reveals Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
- Galactic Bloodlines: Many Nearby Star Clusters Originate from Only Three 'families'
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- Researchers Upend Theory About the Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
- Exotic Black Holes Could Be a Byproduct of Dark Matter
- Planet-Forming Disks Around Very Low-Mass Stars Are Different
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Medium and Mighty: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Can Survive in Globular Clusters
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Birth of Universe's Earliest Galaxies Observed for First Time
- Intriguing Nearby World Sized Between Earth, Venus
- First Pictures from Euclid Satellite Reveal Billions of Orphan Stars
- Potentially Habitable 'exo-Venus' With Earth-Like Temperature Discovered
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Using Wobbling Stellar Material, Astronomers Measure the Spin of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time
- The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-Like Star
- Detection of an Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting the Ultracool Dwarf Star SPECULOOS-3
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- WASP-193b, a Giant Planet With a Density Similar to That of Cotton Candy
- Researchers Discover the Universe's Oldest Stars in Our Own Galactic Backyard
Friday, May 10, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Venus Has Almost No Water: A New Study May Reveal Why
- Astronomers Observe Elusive Stellar Light Surrounding Ancient Quasars
- Hubble Views a Galaxy With a Voracious Black Hole
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Webb Captures Top of Iconic Horsehead Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
- NASA's Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Astronomers' Simulations Support Dark Matter Theory
- Gemini South Reveals Origin of Unexpected Differences in Giant Binary Stars