Scientists detect largest flare from Sun’s nearest neighbor
Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun's nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri.
The research, which appears today in The Astrophysical...
Scientists release new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy
Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our...
Scientists detect new super-Earth orbiting red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them.
These stars have effective surface...
Scientists catalogue 27 million galaxy morphologies with machine learning
Research from Penn’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has produced the largest catalog of galaxy morphology classification to date.
Led by former postdocs Jesús Vega-Ferrero...
If you want to move an asteroid, you need the right kind of nuclear...
Using nuclear devices to deflect or disrupt an asteroid.
Sounds a bit crazy, no?
Maybe a little too Hollywood? And yet, detonating nukes in space may...
NASA picks SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon
NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected...
Scientists find five double star systems potentially suitable for life
Almost half a century ago the creators of Star Wars imagined a life-sustaining planet, Tatooine, orbiting a pair of stars.
Now, 44 years later, scientists...
Scientists build a quantum bit that can search for dark matter
Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting the motions of stars and galaxies, but thus far, no one has been able to...
Oxygen may be false positives in search for life signs on other planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life, scientists...
How to confirm life on other planets
The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral signatures of almost 1000 atmospheric molecules that...