Astronomers use AI to discover seven rare quasar lens candidates
Artificial intelligence narrowed more than 800,000 quasar observations to seven strong candidates for an exceptionally rare type of…
Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light
A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside.…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…
Astronomers find four Barnard’s Star planets to be small, uninhabitable, with years lasting only days
Barnard’s Star has four small rocky planets packed extremely close to the star.Their atmospheres probably disappeared billions of…
New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, hides intense heat beneath its porous crust
NASA’s Juno spacecraft measured heat below Io’s surface for the first time and found temperatures rise sharply just…
Scientists find evidence of a rare double supernova in the Jellyfish Nebula
Astronomers found evidence that the Jellyfish Nebula, or IC 443, and the fainter remnant G189.6+3.3 may have formed…
The Sun contains 55% more silver than astronomers previously thought
Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that…
50 years ago, did NASA’s Viking landers destroy the Martian life they were searching for?
Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss…
First x-rays captured in space mark breakthrough for astronaut health
Medical care in space has long faced a quiet but serious limitation. For more than 40 years, astronauts…
Little red dot galaxies may solve a cosmic neutrino mystery
Faint, distant galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope are beginning to reshape how scientists understand the…
First rocky planet with an atmosphere located in the habitable zone of a star 49 light-years away
A rocky planet 49 light-years from Earth appears to have retained an atmosphere despite orbiting a red dwarf…