Afterglow of GW170817 sheds light on the origin of neutron star collisions
The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written.
After the extremely bright...
Scientist hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big...
Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the...
Scientists reveal the secret of Saturn’s impossible rotation
Saturn may be doing a little electromagnetic shimmy and twist which has been throwing off attempts by scientists to determine how long it takes...
Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos
A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, and a year is one revolution around the Sun...
Scientists discover a new mineral buried inside meteorite
Scientists have discovered a new mineral buried inside the Wedderburn meteorite, forged in the core of a planet that no longer exists.
The Wedderburn meteorite,...
NASA satellite spots a mystery that’s gone in a flash
Pops of bright blue and green in this image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) show the locations of extremely bright sources of X-ray...
Scientists find space dragons eating interstellar fuel to feed their black holes
Like a starved dragon, the supermassive black hole in the center of quasar gobbles materials with endless appetite.
These materials glares shiningly when gathering...
Giant impacts can dramatically drop the internal pressures in planets, says study
A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that could significantly change the...
Mercury’s ancient magnetic field, like Earth’s, changed over time
Mercury’s ancient magnetic poles were far from the location of its poles today, implying its magnetic field, like Earth’s, changed over time, a new...
Saturn’s interior flows like honey, says new study
A new study argues that Saturn's interior flows like honey due to its magnetic field, which may help solve the mystery of why the...