Scientists witness a carbon star’s mysterious death throes
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data...
Expansion cracks make inner ocean boil out on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from "tiger stripe" fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus—sometimes as much...
Scientists find mysterious wave in the sun with unexplained speed
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the sun that, unexpectedly, appear to...
New study challenges long-held assumptions about the sun
Many Sun's coronal loops may be optical illusions, according to a new study that challenges prevailing assumptions of what researchers know, and don't know,...
Over 5,000 exoplanets exist beyond our solar system, confirms NASA
The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
Not so long...
Scientists develop the largest, most detailed model of the early universe to date
It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological “bang” that brought the universe suddenly and spectacularly into existence.
Shortly after, the...
Europa’s chaos terrains could be shuttling oxygen to ocean and support alien life
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could...
Scientists find the 5000th exoplanet
Since the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system 30 years ago, thousands more have been found.
At first, discoveries of these new...
Why would an alien civilization send out Von Neumann Probes?
In 1948-49, mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and engineer John von Neumann introduced the world to his idea of “Universal Assemblers,” a species of self-replicating...
Astronomers could detect gravitational waves by tracking the moon’s orbit around the earth
Gravitational waves are notoriously difficult to detect.
Although modern optical astronomy has been around for centuries, gravitational wave astronomy has only been around since 2015.
Even...