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Scientists including UWM Professor David Kaplan have determined the identity of a long-period radio transient to be a white dwarf accreting material from its neighboring star, as illustrated in the graphic above.
A strange Milky Way radio source links repeating cosmic bursts to a compact pair of stars locked in an 80-minute orbit.
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Shackleton crater on the Lunar South Pole. The Chang’e-7 Moon mission will send a hopper toward shadowed south pole craters in search of accessible lunar water ice.
SpaceChina’s Chang’e-7 targets the Moon’s South Pole in search of usable water iceJoseph Shavit
Dark photon dark matter gets new room to hide after plasma simulations overturn powerful early-universe limits.
SpaceCosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwiseJoshua Shavit
An ancient impact depression under the surface regolith layer of Deimos, one of several made clearer thanks to stereoscopics image produced by Sir Brian May, a member of Hera's science team.
SpaceMars moon Deimos may be hiding ancient craters beneath 120 meters of debrisJoseph Shavit
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Astronomers observed the flare in ultraviolet light using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
SpaceRapidly spinning stars could solve a longstanding black hole flare mysteryJoseph Shavit
Microbes surviving on the moon could persist for a week in shaded polar niches, raising contamination concerns for Artemis missions.
SpaceEarth microbes could survive for days on the Moon, NASA findsJoseph Shavit
The fastest star in the Milky Way races around Sagittarius A* at 25,000 km/s and could help astronomers measure its spin.
SpaceMilky Way’s fastest star revolves around the central black hole at 15,500 miles per secondJoseph Shavit
Nuclear asteroid defense simulations show how X-rays from a standoff blast could fracture a 160-meter asteroid.
SpaceA 1-megaton nuclear blast could prevent 97% of a city-killer asteroid from hitting EarthJoseph Shavit
A Swinburne astronomer may have just confirmed one of the quirkiest aspects of quantum mechanics: that seemingly empty space can alter the behaviour of light.
SpaceExtreme X-rays from a magnetar exposes that empty space may not be emptyJoshua Shavit
Artists concept. About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it.
SpaceAstronomers discover a lost galaxy buried in the Milky Way’s ancient star clustersJoseph Shavit
Radiation belt particle diffusion may be mimicked by predictable particle motion that spacecraft cannot fully resolve.
SpaceSpacecraft may be mistaking how energetic particles move around the EarthJoseph Shavit
An AI-generated visualisation of a distant galaxy, containing besides dust, gas and young stars three massive, active black holes (black spheres, not to scale) with bright accretion disks. Other distant galaxies are shown in the background, and few stars in the foreground.
SpaceJWST finds three feeding black holes packed into one early galaxyJoseph Shavit
A new study captures the first clear evidence of ambipolar diffusion, a process that allows stars to form from dense cosmic clouds.
SpaceScientists detect key process that triggers new star formationJoshua Shavit
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image with box added to show location of the globular cluster stellar stream.
Space2-kiloparsec trail of stars could reveal how dark matter shapes galaxiesJoseph Shavit
IceCube at the South pole with the Milky Way in the background.
SpaceThe Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino imageJoseph Shavit
New melting experiments confirm that diamond floats in metallic liquid carbon at high pressures, much like ice cubes float in a glass of water.
SpaceDiamond’s extreme melting point could unlock more fusion energyJoshua Shavit
Space habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on long missions by influencing sleep, privacy, connection, and homesickness.
SpaceSpace habitat design could shape astronaut mental health on Mars missionsJoseph Shavit