NASA’s Parker probe traces solar wind to its source on sun’s surface
A year ago, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any satellite in history, collecting a spectacular trove of data from...
Scientists find first giant planet around white dwarf
Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have, for the first time, found evidence of a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star.
The planet...
Metal-rich stars not necessarily make metal-rich planets, shows new study
Unraveling this surprising discrepancy could reveal new details about the planet formation process.
A surprising analysis of the composition of gas giant exoplanets and their...
Scientists catch a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear...
Space travel can make the gut leaky
Bacteria, fungi, and viruses can enter our gut through the food we eat.
Fortunately, the epithelial cells that line our intestines serve as a robust...
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two...
New image offers close-up view of interstellar comet
Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov.
2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and...
Scientists perform the coldest reaction in the known universe
In temperatures millions of times colder than interstellar space, Harvard researchers have performed the coldest reaction in the known universe.
But that's not all....
How do black holes and neutron stars shine bright?
For decades, scientists have speculated about the origin of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from celestial regions that host black holes and neutron stars--the most...
Scientists discover rare supermassive black hole
Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes - cosmic bodies formed by the collapse of massive stars and...