Scientists find new way to make fuels on Mars
Researchers may have come up with a solution to one of the most pressing challenges of a Mars voyage:
How do we get enough fuel...
Astronomers find the farthest galaxy. Its light took 13.4 billion years to reach us
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things began.
It’s only been in...
Scientists find winds and jet streams on the closest brown dwarf
A University of Arizona-led research team has found bands and stripes on the brown dwarf closest to Earth, hinting at the processes churning the...
Scientists find when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water
Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu.
While analysis of those returned samples is...
Universe is nearly 14 billion years old, shows study
Astronomers, including Cornell’s Steve Choi, have used observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, to propose that the universe is 13.77 billion years old...
Where did this galaxy’s supermassive black hole go
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened, researchers say.
Despite searching with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope,...
Ripples in space-time could help find missing pieces of the universe
There’s something a little off about our theory of the universe.
Almost everything fits, but there’s a fly in the cosmic ointment, a particle of...
Demise of Arecibo telescope marks sad end of an era
On the morning of Dec. 1, the Arecibo radio telescope — a storied tool for atmospheric science and astronomy that has produced valuable research...
White dwarfs may help solve the cosmological lithium problem
For the first time, hard-to-track lithium has been identified and measured in the atmosphere of burned out stars called white dwarfs, according to a...
This pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
A research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each...