Yoyo stars caused off-center bubbles of ionized gas, shows study
Astronomers have developed a new code to simulate the formation of a cluster of baby stars.
Comparison with the well-known real case of the Orion...
Astronomers detect rare and strange radio burst
Astronomers have found only the second example of a highly active, repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) with a compact source of weaker but persistent...
NASA’s Ingenuity has lost its sense of direction on Mars, but it’ll keep on...
NASA’s Ingenuity has lost its sense of direction on Mars, but it’ll keep on flying
Things are getting challenging for the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.
The...
Salt may be the key to life on Earth and beyond
The composition of the atmosphere, especially the abundance of greenhouse gases, influences Earth’s climate.
Researchers at Purdue University, led by Stephanie Olson, assistant professor of...
Does a “mirror world of particles” explain the crisis in cosmology
The idea of a mirror universe is a common trope in science fiction.
A world similar to ours where we might find our evil doppelganger...
What is the best radiation shielding for the surface of Mars
The planet Mars is calling to us.
At least, that is the impression one gets when examining all the planned and proposed missions to the...
The early solar system was total mayhem
There’s no question that young solar systems are chaotic places.
Cascading collisions defined our young Solar System as rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided.
A new...
Scientists make new findings about the life’s origin on Earth and maybe Mars
Scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution announced that ribonucleic acid (RNA), an analog of DNA that was likely the first genetic material...
The stars in other galaxies are generally heavier than the Milky Way’s stars
How many of what kinds of stars live in other galaxies?
It seems like a simple question, but it’s notoriously hard to pin down, because...
Dark stars: the first stars in the universe could have been powered by annihilating...
Dark matter doesn’t really do much of anything in the present-day universe.
But in the early days of the cosmos there may have been pockets...