NASA’s Curiosity finds another metal meteorite on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is going about its business exploring Mars.
The high-tech rover is currently exploring the sulphate-bearing unit on Mt. Sharp, the central...
Astronomers use earthquakes to understand glitches on neutron stars
A team of astronomers have used a model of earthquakes to understand glitches in the timing of pulsars.
Their results suggest that pulsars may have...
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf
Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by Einstein in his General...
Astronomers measure the mass of a lone white dwarf for the first time
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – the surviving...
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf
Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by Einstein in his General...
Astronomers detect a one-in-ten-billion binary star system
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have uncovered the first example of a phenomenally rare type of...
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe
Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to find it first.
When the universe began, matter was flung outward and gradually formed the...
Astronomers find 25 fast radio bursts that repeat on a regular basis
Like Gravitational Waves (GWs) and Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today.
These transient...
Volcano-like rupture could have caused magnetar slowdown
Star’s sudden slowdown allows for test of ‘anti-glitch’ theory.
On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years...
Souped up Hall thrusters might get people to Mars
Running more propellant through a Hall thruster might power a crewed mission to Mars, experiments suggest.
It was believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind...