New model aims to demystify ‘steam worlds’ beyond our solar system
Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought...
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It was even stronger than we thought
The paper of the famous "Wow!" signal. Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO) The "Wow!"...
Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth
This image shows the chemistry of one of the sample grains as measured at the TES beamline using tender-energy X-ray...
Dark sky tourism offers time with darkness and celestial wonders
Credit: CC0 Public Domain On a cold winter night in a rural area, I looked through a scope to see...
Inouye Solar Telescope delivers record-breaking images of solar flare and coronal loops
A high-resolution image of the flare from the Inouye Solar Telescope, taken on August 8, 2024, at 20:12 UT. The...
What, exactly, is space-time?
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric of space and...
XMM-VID1-2075 is a massive, evolved and slow-rotating galaxy, observations suggest
An RGB image of XMM-VID1-2075 generated by collapsing the data cube along the wavelength axis to form a deep image....
Red galaxies provide new insights into the birth of the universe
This image combines data from the JWST's MIRI and NIRcam cameras to create a multicolour view of the Hubble Ultra...
Astronomers have glimpsed the core of a dying star—confirming theories of how atoms are made
An illustration of the 'extremely stripped' supernova 2021yfj. Credit: Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure...
Self-consistent model incorporates gas self-gravity effects to address accretion across cosmic scales
Global solutions of the TPBVP for ~β=0.65 and γ=4/3. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adec71 A research team led...