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Gliese 1132b is only slightly larger than Earth. Image via Wikipedia.

Astronomy

Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole at a galaxy's center. The blue color represents radiation pouring out from material very close to the black hole.
Image credits NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Astrophysics

Researchers found a supermassive black hole choking on its meal

March 16, 2017 - Updated on July 5, 2017

Artist impression of a supermassive black hole in the making in close proximity to a protogalaxy. The picture depicts the simulation at redshift z=24 corresponding to about 140 million years after the Big Bang.

Astrophysics

To birth supermassive black holes in the early universe, some galaxies may have had to be sacrificed

March 14, 2017 - Updated on June 11, 2023

Artist's concept of an atom chip for use by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station. CAL will use lasers to cool atoms to ultracold temperatures.
Credits: NASA

Astrophysics

NASA wants to create the coolest spot in the universe

An artist rendition of the middleweight black hole. New research suggests that a 2,200 solar-mass black hole resides at the center of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
Credit: CfA / M. Weiss

Astrophysics

Astronomers discover the first “middleweight” black hole

February 9, 2017

Three possible shapes of the Universe: closed, open and flat from top to bottom. Image credits: NASA.

Astrophysics

What shape is the Universe, really?

January 5, 2017

Saturn's rings were named alphabetically in the order they were discovered. The narrow F ring marks the outer boundary of the main ring system.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Astronomy

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to finally reach Saturn’s rings

November 30, 2016

A group of sunspots. The big one in the lower-left part of the image stretches more than 11 Earths, or 87,000 miles across. Image by NASA.

Astronomy

Proxima Centauri is more like Earth than we thought, might host habitable planet

October 13, 2016

This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption flare. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

Black holes turn stars into spaghetti, devours them, then burp fire

September 19, 2016

OSIRIS-REx will travel to near-Earth asteroid Bennu on a sample return mission.
Credits: NASA

Astronomy

NASA prepares mission to intercept asteroid

September 8, 2016

Astronomy

First stars formed much later than we thought

September 2, 2016 - Updated on September 3, 2016

There is probably an ice volcano on Ceres.

Astronomy

More surprises on Ceres: astronomers discover an ice volcano

September 2, 2016

An artist's impression of the exploding quasar at the center of the Milky Way 6 million years ago. The wisps of orange at the center represent the gasless "bubble" that would have formed following the event.
Image credits Mark A. Garlick / CfA.

Astrophysics

Milky Way’s missing matter traced back to an explosion in its core 6 million years ago

September 1, 2016

Artistic depiction of a black hole with a corona. Image by NASA/JPL.

Astronomy

Black Holes are sending quantum messages in the universe

August 30, 2016 - Updated on May 11, 2023

Both images show the Dragonfly 44 dark galaxy, only on the left it's much fainter (Sloan Digital Sky Survey), while the on the right (Gemini telescope) was taken with a very long exposure. Credit Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini, Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Astrophysics

Newly found galaxy is almost entirely made out of dark matter

August 29, 2016

Artistic depiction of a white dwarf sucking up hydrogen from its companion star. K. Ulaczyk / Warsaw University Observatory

Astronomy

White dwarf goes nova after a long slumber

August 18, 2016 - Updated on July 25, 2023

Image credits Mattias Malmer/NASA/JPL.

Astronomy

Venus could once have been a very welcoming planet, NASA study found

August 8, 2016 - Updated on August 22, 2019

Artist’s concept of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, whose volcanoes create an ephemeral atmosphere during sunlit hours. Image: Southwest Research Institute

Astronomy

Io’s atmosphere collapses every time there’s an eclipse

The blue dots in the above picture represent galaxies that contain supermassive black holes emitting high-energy X-rays. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

NASA pinpoints black holes that send out high-energy X-rays for first time ever

Illustration of the pulsing white dwarf lashing particles and radiation onto its companion red dwarf. Credit: University of Warwick

Astronomy

Scientists discover first pulsing white dwarf binary star

July 29, 2016 - Updated on July 25, 2023

Image via pixabay

Astrophysics

Too big to orbit: Jupiter is so massive it doesn’t actually orbit the Sun

July 28, 2016 - Updated on December 7, 2016

Illustration of the Milky Way's high temperature gaseous halo (seen in blue). Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss/Ohio State/A Gupta et al.

Astronomy

Scientists uncover unique speed and direction of Milky Way’s spinning ‘halo’

Image credit ALMA/NASA

Astronomy

Ancient supernovae might have contributed to Earth mass extinction

Artist's rendering of WISE 0855 as it might appear if viewed up close in infrared light. (Illustration by Joy Pollard, Gemini Observatory/AURA)

Astronomy

Astronomers find water clouds on brown dwarf

via NASA

Astrophysics

The Juno shuttle is entering Jupiter’s atmosphere – and you can watch it live

Astronomy

Gravitational waves spotted again by researchers

An artist's drawing a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from the blue star beside it.

Image: M.Weiss/NASA/CXC

Astrophysics

New algorithm will allow us to finally visualize black holes

This illustration shows the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe's expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy, reducing the total uncertainty to 2.4 percent. Astronomers made the measurements by streamlining and strengthening the construction of the cosmic distance ladder, which is used to measure accurate distances to galaxies near and far from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)

Astrophysics

The Universe is expanding faster than we thought, new Hubble study finds

Artist’s impression of the view from the surface of a planet orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Astronomy

This small, dim star could be our best bet of finding extraterrestrial life

An image of the deep radio map covering the ELAIS-N1 region, with aligned galaxy jets. The image on the left has white circles around the aligned galaxies; the image on the right is without the circles.
Credit: Prof Russ Taylor

Astrophysics

Primordial black holes locked in a strange, synchronized dance

Data from galaxies such as M101, seen here, allow scientists to gauge the speed at which the universe is expanding.
Image credits X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Detlef Hartmann; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

The Universe expands much faster than we thought, and current models can’t explain why

via NASA/Hubble.

Astronomy

Hubble snaps brilliant picture of ‘Red Rectangle’ nebula

April 13, 2016 - Updated on July 25, 2023

Too close for comfort.
Image credits: ESO/ .Calcada

Astrophysics

New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered

April 11, 2016 - Updated on April 12, 2016

A sky survey image of the massive galaxy NGC 1600, and a Hubble Space Telescope closeup of the bright center of the galaxy where the 17-billion-solar-mass black hole -- or binary black hole -- resides.
Credit: ESA/Hubble image courtesy of STScI.

Astrophysics

Could supermassive black holes be lurking everywhere?

April 7, 2016 - Updated on April 8, 2016

Maps of lunar polar hydrogen (proxy for water ice). White dots mark maximum abundance. Credit: James Tuttle Keane

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-moon-tilt-earth.html#jCp

Astrophysics

Earth’s moon wandered off axis billions of years ago

March 24, 2016 - Updated on January 31, 2024

"The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons," by G.R. Gladstone et al. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 18, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.R. Gladstone at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "The atmosphere of Pluto as observed by New Horizons."
Credit: G.R. Gladstone et al. / Science (2016)

Astronomy

Flurry of studies shows Pluto’s geology really is crazy

Astrophysics

New mathematical model analyzes early Universe

GN-z11, ESA/Hubble

Astrophysics

Hubble breaks record, snaps pic of most distant galaxy ever

Artist's impression of the clouds scattered by an intermediate mass black hole.
Credit: Tomoharu Oka (Keio University)

Astrophysics

Astronomers may have discovered an invisible black hole in the Milky Way

January 19, 2016

New modeling indicates that the grooves on Mars’ moon Phobos could be produced by tidal forces – the mutual gravitational pull of the planet and the moon. Initially, scientists had thought the grooves were created by the massive impact that made Stickney crater (lower right).
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Astrophysics

Martian Moon is falling apart

November 13, 2015

This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays around a black hole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

Scientists see something shooting out of a black hole for the first time

November 9, 2015

Artist’s rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere.
Credits: NASA/GSFC

Astrophysics

NASA announcement: Martian atmosphere was stripped by solar wind

November 6, 2015

Image via NASA.

Astrophysics

Scientists find hydrocarbon dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan

November 3, 2015

An artist’s conception of a Ceres-like asteroid slowly disintegrating as it orbits a white dwarf star. (Credit: Mark A. Garlick)

Astrophysics

Astronomers witness an exploding star devouring a dwarf planet

October 22, 2015

An artist's impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be born over the next trillion years in the evolving universe. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI).

Astronomy

Many Earth-Like Planets Haven’t Formed Yet

October 21, 2015

Saturn’s ring current of energetic ions trapped in its magnetic field is shown in this false-color map from the Cassini spacecraft. The colors correspond to the intensities of the energetic neutral atoms emitted from the ring current. These neutral atoms are formed when trapped energetic positive ions take electrons from cold gas atoms, and are then able to escape Saturn’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL

Astrophysics

“Fingers” of Plasma Invade Saturn’s Magnetic Field

October 20, 2015

Image via Columbia University.

Astrophysics

Two supermassive black holes set for a collision that will shake the cosmos itself

September 18, 2015 - Updated on August 31, 2023

galaxy cluster star

Astrophysics

Incredibly active galaxy cluster creates 800 stars every year

September 11, 2015

Image via Planetary Hunters.

Astrophysics

Biggest Planets Started out as Tiny Pebbles

August 21, 2015

The sweep of NASA Kepler mission’s search for small, habitable planets in the last six years. The first planet smaller than Earth, Kepler-20e, was discovered in December 2011 orbiting a Sun-like star slightly cooler and smaller than our sun every six days. But it is scorching hot and unable to maintain an atmosphere or a liquid water ocean. Kepler-22b was announced in the same month, as the first planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, but is more than twice the size of Earth and therefore unlikely to have a solid surface. Kepler-186f was discovered in April 2014 and is the first Earth-size planet found in the habitable zone of a small, cool M dwarf about half the size and mass of our sun. Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-Size planet in the habitable zone of a star very similar to the sun.
Credits: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel

Astronomy

NASA’s exciting announcement: They’ve discovered an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

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