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Astronomers Use GMRT to Measure Atomic Hydrogen Gas Content of Galaxies 9 Billion Years Ago

A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune, and the Raman Research Institute, in Bangalore, has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to measure the atomic hydrogen gas content of galaxies 9 billion years ago, in the young universe.

8 Jun 2021

Findings Increase the Number of Astronomical Bodies that Could Have Brought Life to Earth

A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact of a small astronomical body could enable aqueous alteration and organic solid formation to occur on the surface of an asteroid.

7 Jun 2021

Scientists Gain the Best View Yet of Brightest Cosmic Explosion

Scientists have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe: A specialised observatory in Namibia has recorded the most energetic radiation and longest gamma-ray afterglow of a so-called gamma-ray burst (GRB) to date.

4 Jun 2021

Helium Rains May Fall on Jupiter and Saturn

The extreme environments of the atmospheres of gas giants are believed to cause droplets of liquid helium to form in the upper atmosphere and rain down upon lower levels. And now, we may have the first experimental confirmation of this phenomenon.

28 May 2021

Dark Matter Could Form ‘Hidden Bridges’ Between Galaxies

A new model of the local universe reveals filaments of dark matter stretching across the cosmic void and linking galaxies.

26 May 2021

NASA Launches Sounding Rocket to Seek Aurora Answers

NASA launched one of its largest sounding rockets Sunday from an East Coast facility in an experiment led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute space physics professor.

19 May 2021

The Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Missing Worlds’ Could Be Solved by Shrinking Planets

Mini-Neptune exoplanets could shed their atmospheres as they age, thus ‘leaping the radius gap’ and explaining why mid-sized planets seem to be missing from our catalogs.

18 May 2021

How the International Space Station Helps Study Earth’s Climate

The desire to understand space and reach beyond the limits of Earth's atmosphere has provided us with the ideal platform to study our planet and combat our most pressing challenge: climate change.

14 May 2021

Producing Water on the Moon is Now a Reality

Water production on the surface of the Moon is now feasible thanks to a chemical-physical process that allows oxygen to be extracted from regolith (lunar sand).

14 May 2021

A New Type of Aurora Revealed in Decades-Old Video Footage

Physicists have found a previously undiscovered phenomenon called ‘diffuse auroral erasers’ while analyzing a video of auroras recorded in 2002.

10 May 2021

Outer Space News

Astronomers Use GMRT to Measure Atomic Hydrogen Gas Content of Galaxies 9 Billion Years Ago

Findings Increase the Number of Astronomical Bodies that Could Have Brought Life to Earth

Scientists Gain the Best View Yet of Brightest Cosmic Explosion

Helium Rains May Fall on Jupiter and Saturn

Dark Matter Could Form ‘Hidden Bridges’ Between Galaxies

NASA Launches Sounding Rocket to Seek Aurora Answers

The Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Missing Worlds’ Could Be Solved by Shrinking Planets

How the International Space Station Helps Study Earth’s Climate

Producing Water on the Moon is Now a Reality

A New Type of Aurora Revealed in Decades-Old Video Footage

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