Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping to explain how bubbles of ionized gas are created away from the heart of a galaxy. Stellar n… [+3034 chars]
Samples collected by China’s lunar lander Chang’E-5 have delivered the first definitive confirmation of the evidence of native water on the Moon. The lander collected samples from the Moons Oceanus P… [+2975 chars]
Welcome to the summer American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Pasadena, CA, and online! Astrobites is attending the conference as usual, and we will report highlights from each day here. If yo… [+31037 chars]
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula - a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our galaxy - gaining new understanding o… [+3982 chars]
Australian astronomers believe they have found the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years. The astronomers estimate the ginormous black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth … [+1378 chars]
Qubits are a basic building block for quantum computers, but they're also notoriously fragiletricky to observe without erasing their information in the process. Now, new research from the University … [+5874 chars]
<li>Mader, H. M., Llewellin, E. W. & Mueller, S. P. The rheology of two-phase magmas: A review and analysis. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res.257, 135158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.02.0… [+11754 chars]
Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an abundance of separate galaxies colliding together… [+4009 chars]
Antarctica's so-called Doomsday Glacier is losing ice at its fastest rate in 5,500 years, raising concerns about the ice sheet's future and the possibility of catastrophic sea level rise caused by th… [+4718 chars]
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing l… [+4056 chars]
You can set out automated cameras; you can set out acoustic recorders; or you could do it manually with people out into the field to survey things, but its difficult to do that on a really large scal… [+3323 chars]
Studying two highly divergent phyla of worms that contain numerous parasites that cause human and livestock diseases, the research group of Qi Zhou from the University of Vienna and Zhejiang Universi… [+3293 chars]