The oldest stars of the Milky Way galaxy are found within its outskirts. However, in this celestial retirement community, astronomers have observed something unpredicted—a cluster of young stars.
Wolf Cukier’s job as a summer intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2019 was to investigate variations in star brightness that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captures and uploads to the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project.
Scientists at The University of Western Australia have contributed to a new study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) revealing a possible collision of two neutron stars 3.4 times heavier than the sun.
Astronomers have spotted UGC 2885, an incredible spiral galaxy that might be called the “Godzilla galaxy” since it may be the largest ever galaxy in the local universe.
A new technique has been created by researchers to detect oxygen in the atmospheres of exoplanets. This technique could speed up the search for life on exoplanets.
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped incredible new images of a gargantuan spiral galaxy some 232 million light-years away. The galaxy is so big in fact that NASA has dubbed it the “Godzilla Galaxy” as it d...
By David J. Cross
7 Jan 2020
Last week, new research reported evidence that suggests Venus is likely to be the home of active volcanoes, answering a question that scientists have wondered about for years, given the planet’s history of volcanis...
By Sarah Moore
7 Jan 2020
In the pursuit to gain deeper insight into the mechanism behind the formation of massive black holes in the early Universe, astronomers have obtained vital clues by discovering 13 such black holes in dwarf galaxies located within a billion light-years from Earth.
With nearly half a century passing between now and the last time humankind walked on the Moon, NASA has announced a new program that would see astronauts set foot on the lunar surface. Dubbed the Artemis program, the pla...
By David J. Cross
6 Jan 2020
This July, NASA plan to launch their Mars 2020 mission Rover from the Kennedy Space Center. The aim of the mission, which will cost around $2.5 billion, is to continue to search for life on Mars, using robots to explore ...
By Sarah Moore
6 Jan 2020
A mysterious hydrogen gas ring surrounding a faraway galaxy has been discovered by a group of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, India.
An innovative “multi-messenger” approach to quantum physics developed by scientists from Columbia University and the University of California, San Diego, denotes a technological advance in ways researchers can study quantum materials.
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have come up with a quantum chemistry simulation benchmark that helps assess the performance of quantum devices and steer applications development for next-generation quantum computers.
The solar wind striking the dayside magnetosphere of the Earth leads to turbulence, just like how air does over a wing.
In the 1990s, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed its first superconducting devices to count photons (the smallest units of light). Since then, these previously uncommon detectors have become well-known research tools across the globe.