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A realistic depiction of a free-floating gas giant planet and its Earth-like moon.
Moons around free-floating planets may harbor liquid oceans for billions of years with no star required, new modeling finds.
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Study of 6,594 solar twins suggests the Sun migrated outward from the Milky Way’s center 4–6 billion years ago.
SpaceThe Sun could be one of thousands of solar twins moving through the Milky WayJoshua Shavit
Scientists discover the first neutron star–black hole merger with an eccentric orbit, reshaping theories of how these systems form.
SpaceAstronomers discover the first neutron star–black hole merger with an eccentric orbitJoseph Shavit
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets of charged particles emanate from the magnetar along its rotation axis.
SpaceNewborn magnetar offers rare evidence of Einstein’s relativity in a stellar explosionJoshua Shavit
Visualization of the ultra-high-energy neutrino event detected by the KM3NeT/ARCA detector in the Mediterranean Sea. The colored tracks show the Cherenkov light produced as secondary particles travel through the water and are recorded by the detector's optical modules.
SpaceBlack hole-powered blazars may explain the highest-energy neutrino ever detectedJoshua Shavit
Turbulent star environments may broaden alien radio signals, making them harder for SETI to detect.
SpaceSpace weather near stars may be hiding alien signals from EarthJoseph Shavit
Physicists decode how neutron stars deform under tidal forces, offering in sights into their extreme interiors.
SpaceGravitational waves finally reveal what’s inside neutron starsJoseph Shavit
Dimorphos streaks offer first direct evidence that binary asteroids can exchange debris through slow impacts.
SpaceNASA DART Mission data reshapes understanding of how near-Earth asteroids evolve over timeJoshua Shavit
Study finds Earth-sun distance helps drive the Pacific cold tongue, a key player in El Niño and global weather.
SpaceEarth’s distance from the Sun found to dramatically alter seasonsJoshua Shavit
James Webb observations confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely pass the Moon in 2032, eliminating a previous collision risk.
SpaceAsteroid 2024 YR4 once feared to strike the Moon now appears harmlessJoseph Shavit
Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a possible step toward feeding future lunar astronauts.
Green ImpactResearchers successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’Rebecca Shavit
The oldest stars in the Milky Way provide information about the age of the universe.
SpaceAncient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tensionJoseph Shavit
Section of the Line Intensity Map created by charting the distribution and concentration of excited hydrogen via the Lyman alpha wavelength in the universe 10 billion years ago.
SpaceAstronomers built the largest and most accurate 3D map of the ultraviolet universeJoshua Shavit
ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches.
SpaceESA orbiter reveals strange behavior within Mars’ upper atmosphere during a solar superstormJoseph Shavit
Ryugu asteroid samples preserve magnetic signals from the early solar system, revealing clues about the solar nebula.
SpaceAsteroid Ryugu fragments carry a magnetic record from the birth of the solar systemJoseph Shavit
Lab impacts show a tough microbe can survive pressures linked to rock ejection from Mars, supporting planet-hopping ideas.
SpaceMartian microbes can survive being blasted into space by a large asteroid strikeJoshua Shavit
Image of WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). ESO/K.
SpaceA giant star’s sudden shift signals it might be ready to supernovaJoseph Shavit