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Unusual elements and a 4.4-day brightness cycle suggest a planet formed from material shed by the white dwarf HS 0209+0832.
A white dwarf’s heavy elements hint at a planet containing material from its dying star, but confirmation is still needed.
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Gemini North images reveal chains of gas knots in Pa 30, a supernova remnant linked to 1181 with a surviving central star.
SpaceCosmic ‘pearls’ emerge around the surviving star of an ancient supernovaJoseph Shavit
Engineers 3D printed recycled PEKK and simulated moon dust into lattices and a wrench, testing a route toward lunar manufacturing.
SpaceRecycled plastic and moon dust become 3D-printed parts and structures for future lunar missionsJoshua Shavit
Recent lightsail experiments reveal progress toward interstellar travel, while distance, radiation and energy remain major hurdles.
SpaceInterstellar travel faces steep hurdles, but recent research is paving a new path to the starsJoseph Shavit
Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that originate from space.
SpaceCosmicWatch lets students build a detector for invisible cosmic-ray particlesJoshua Shavit
Gold nanogaps and AI distinguish mirror-image amino acids, offering a possible route to compact instruments for the search for life.
SpaceScientists use AI and nanotechnology to detect signs of life in spaceJoseph Shavit
An artist’s impression of ZTF J0440+2325, where a brown dwarf transfers material onto a red dwarf as the pair orbit each other every 86.65 minutes.
SpaceA small star is slowly consuming a brown dwarf, 300 light years awayJoseph Shavit
A gamma-ray reanalysis tightens specific limits on violations of Einstein’s light-speed rule by roughly a factor of ten.
SpaceCosmic gamma rays test the limits of Einstein’s speed of light ruleJoseph Shavit
A FAST search finds an unexplained radio signal toward K2-155, but deeper checks favor terrestrial or instrumental interference.
SpaceComprehensive planetary search detected an unexplained radio signal from K2-155, 238 light-years awayJoseph Shavit
An AI model flags 44 star systems that may hide Earth-like planets, using patterns in known planets to guide telescope searches.
AIAI finds 44 star systems that could hide Earth-like planetsJoseph Shavit
A new Mars map shows ancient rain may have concentrated formaldehyde, a key prebiotic molecule, in specific regions billions of years ago.
SpaceRainstorms billions of years ago may have created habitable hotspots on MarsJoseph Shavit
Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
SpaceScientists recreate Enceladus’s ocean and watch Earth microbes thriveJoseph Shavit
A short gamma-ray burst followed by 10 minutes of X-rays may reveal a long-lived magnetar born from a neutron star merger.
SpaceEinstein Probe catches a neutron star merger glowing far longer than expectedJoshua Shavit
Planetary chemistry suggests Earth grew mostly from pebble-built protoplanets, while Mars formed mainly from larger planetesimals.
SpaceNew evidence challenges the idea that Earth and Mars formed the same wayJoseph Shavit
Four lunar satellites kept a BeiDou navigation network stable for 60 days, cutting autonomous orbit error to just 0.35 meters.
SpaceThe Moon could solve a stubborn GPS navigation problem for satellites around EarthJoseph Shavit
The binary star system 70 Ophiuchi AB, or 70 Oph AB, can be seen near the center of this image taken by the U.S. Naval Observatory in 1937.
Space170-year-old search narrows the hunt for planets around nearby binary system 70 OphiuchiJoseph Shavit
An artist's concept of a gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf.
SpaceJWST uncovers a surprisingly cold atmosphere on the giant planet HATS-6 bJoseph Shavit