Cosmic Vanishing Acts: NASA Unraveling the Mystery of Shrinking Exoplanets
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new…
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new…
Using multiple observatories, astronomers directly detect tellurium in two merging neutron stars. An extraordinary burst of high-energy light in the sky has pointed astronomers to…
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, possibly driven by dark energy. However, the Hubble tension, a discrepancy in expansion rate measurements, challenges current…
Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have documented extraordinary, long-lasting radio emissions from a sunspot, offering new insights into solar and stellar magnetic…
Will it ever be possible for time travel to occur? Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction movies?…
An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA’s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet’s ionosphere….
A team of researchers has used the gravitational lensing of the MG J0414+0534 system, observed with ALMA, to map dark matter distribution in unprecedented detail,…
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx…
A team of astronomers used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the nearby exoplanet WASP-107 b. Peering…
Follow-up observations in Pandora’s cluster confirmed the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen, which are larger than other galaxies at such extreme distances. The…
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have enabled Australian astronomers to uncover secrets of how infant galaxies started an explosion of star…
Groundbreaking observations reveal dark matter fluctuations below the scale of galaxies, affirming cold dark matter theories and providing new insights into the Universe’s composition. A…
NASA’s new on-demand streaming service and upgraded app are now available, ushering in a new world of original content from the space agency for the…
Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds…
Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. At…
Research team, including a UC Riverside astronomer, made discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including…
Astronomers have found the most distant X-ray black hole, challenging our understanding of supermassive black hole formation in the early universe. Astronomers using NASA telescopes…
Euclid’s detailed imaging of the NGC 6397 globular cluster may reveal tidal tails and offer new insights into dark matter’s role in the Milky Way,…