Scientists find rare Tatooine-like exoplanet
A rare exoplanet that orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University...
NASA’s TESS finds almost 100 quadruple star systems
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018.
TESS...
Scientists create the highest performance atomic clock ever
Physicists have made one of the highest performance atomic clocks ever.
The instrument, known as an optical lattice atomic clock, can measure differences in time...
Scientists detect a supermassive black hole hiding in a ring of cosmic dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre of the galaxy Messier 77 that...
Scientists find new type of star covered in helium burning ashes
Astronomers led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of...
Astronomers detect rare flyby of object in stellar nursery
Scientists have detected a rare stellar "flyby" near the protoplanetary disk around Z Canis Majoris, or Z CMa, a star in the Canis Major...
Why Neptune and Uranus have different colors?
Uranus and Neptune are similar planets in many ways.
Both are ice giant worlds, both have atmospheres rich in methane, and both have a bluish...
How dark matter could be measured in the solar system
Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with illuminated gas in between.
But...
Scientists set record by preserving quantum states for more than five seconds
Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hacker-proof communication networks or quantum computers that could help discover new drugs.
These applications...
Mini-Neptune planets are losing atmospheres and becoming super-earths
Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths.
Radiation from the planets' stars...