Astronomers Discovered a New Relationship Between Water and Planet Formation
Researchers discovered water vapor in the disk surrounding a young star, just where planets may be developing. Water is an essential component of life on…
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The Dust Generation Model Suggests that Planets May Develop More Easily Than Previously Imagined
A team led by a RIKEN astronomer has calculated that the building components of new planets may form more easily than previously assumed. Planets form…
Astronomers Find an Incredibly Red Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Cosmos Growing in the Shadows
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak and Prof. Adi Zitrin from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev discovered an incredibly red, gravitationally…
Astronomers Study the Effects of Dark Matter on the Evolution of Galaxies
Dark matter accounts for approximately 85% of all matter in the cosmos. Although regular matter absorbs, reflects, and emits light, dark matter cannot be observed…
Scientists Map the Largest Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters Using the Synchrotron Intensity Gradient
In a new study, scientists studied magnetic fields in galaxy clusters, revealing the impact of galactic mergers on magnetic-field structures and calling into question earlier…
Scientists Have Found Water Molecules on Asteroids for the First Time
Using data from the decommissioned Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR, Southwest Research…
Saturn’s Biggest Moon is Most Likely Uninhabitable to Live
According to a study conducted by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish, the deep ocean of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is most certainly uninhabitable, implying that all…
Unlocking Earth’s Age: A Journey Into Our Planet’s Ancient Past
We now know that the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, with the planet’s core being about two years younger due to gravity’s time…
What Neptune and Uranus actually look like is revealed by New Photos
Neptune is well-known for its beautiful blue color and Uranus for its green color, but a new study has discovered that the two ice giants…
How Earth’s New Rubin Observatory will Herald in a New Era of Asteroid Space Expeditions
The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will never leave Earth, but the extremely detailed, “big picture” vision of the cosmos it will provide astronomers could…
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