Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough to have rivers and lakes
One of the great mysteries of modern space science is neatly summed up by the view from NASA's Perseverance, which just landed on Mars:
Today...
Scientists retrace asteroid’s long one-way trip to Earth
Scientists have reconstructed the 22-million-year journey of an asteroid through the Solar System to its impact on Earth.
The research on the flight path of...
NASA’s Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant "celebrity star,"...
Stars rotate faster as they grow older, shows study
Stars spin faster than expected as they age according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Birmingham.
The researchers use asteroseismology...
Scientists find a powerful dark matter detector: exoplanets
This exoplanet, a gas giant called GJ 504b, is about 57 light-years away from Earth. Exoplanets like this may help researchers find and measure...
Scientists find a “unicorn” black hole
Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record – and the closest one to Earth found to date.
Researchers have dubbed it...
Mars has right ingredients for microbial life beneath its surface, shows study
New study suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s...
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...