“Free-Floating” Earth-Mass Planets Photobomb View of the Galactic Center
Evidence of four planets has been found to have an equally rich father as the Earth floats in space with no stars to heat them…
Astronomy
Watch China’s Taikonauts Conduct First Spacewalk outside New Space Station
Two Chinese tycoons aboard its Tiangong space station have launched the first of two spacewalks planned for a three-month crew mission in orbit to keep the…
Gas Escaping Supermassive Black Holes can Create Galactic ‘Tsunamis’
The area around a supermassive black hole is truly an environment of extremism. Thanks to new computer simulations, researchers have gained some insight into what…
SpaceX Delivers 88 Satellites to Orbit, Lands First Stage Onshore for First Time in 2021
SpaceX launched 85 satellites for external customers, including three Starlink satellites, on Tuesday, marking the company’s second successful launch of its dedicated Riders mission. The…
New Space-Ready Atomic Clock would Only Lose a Second Every 16 Million Years
Researchers from NASA have reported results from the first year of operating the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), an important technological advance to keep time…
Black Holes Swallowing Neutron Stars Whole seen for the First Time
Researchers have observed space waves coming from the final interaction of merging into a black hole and a neutron star for the first time, detecting…
The Sounds of Space have been Turned into Music
An astronomer, composer and artist have come together to create music from waves detected by scientific instruments on Earth, space and Mars. As a result…
Astronomers are Zeroing in on the Birth of the First Stars
When did the first stars start to burn? Researchers are now closer than ever to the North. Work led by UK scientists puts the cosmic…
Astronomers used Largest Sample of Galaxies observed ever to Create Map of Galaxy
The Dark Energy Survey collaboration, which includes over 400 scientists from 25 institutions, including UArizona, has completed the universe’s largest-ever map. The data, which detail…
Astrophysicists Solve Mystery behind a New Class of Supernova with Crab Nebula
For the past 40 years, astronomers have proposed an electron-capture supernova class but have been unable to prove its existence. However, in Nature Astronomy, astronomers…
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