TEMPE, Ariz. — A star in deep space is giving new meaning to the saying “here today, gone tomorrow.” Astronomers have witnessed the fastest star explosion ever recorded from Earth. They watched as t… [+5502 chars]
From afar, the Sun appears blank and featureless in visible light. But through a solar telescope in different wavelength, it is revealed to be much, much more. In extreme ultraviolet light, the Sun … [+5079 chars]
ByUniversity of AmsterdamJune 16, 2022 University of Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever. Credit: UvA These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficu… [+7083 chars]
Two new worlds of probable rocky mineral goodness have just been found orbiting a star close to our own cosmic neighborhood. The two newly discovered exoplanets are what are known as super-Earths bi… [+4736 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new form of rapid test to detect infections in farm animals, responding to the rising threat of dangerous outbreaks. Th… [+3748 chars]
Scientists from the University of Tsukuba demonstrated how ultrafast spectroscopy can be used to improve the temporal resolution of quantum sensors. By measuring the orientation of coherent spins ins… [+3174 chars]
One look at this stunning new image and you're likely to repeat the immortal words of "2001: A Space Odyssey's" astronaut Dave Bowman as he enters the mysterious black monolith… "My god, it's full of… [+2172 chars]
A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as th… [+4083 chars]
What makes the Earth habitable? There are multiple factors, yet most relate to a single aspect of our world: it orbits the sun at just the proper distance. Every star is surrounded by a region called… [+4199 chars]
A star is ending its life so violently that the dead star left behind, called a white dwarf, is disrupting an entire planetary system by sucking in debris from both its inner and outer reaches. This … [+3145 chars]
The next time you look up at a bright full moon, think about this: No one knows, precisely, where the moon came from. We have no idea why the moon is here, science writer Rebecca Boyle says on Unex… [+9119 chars]
TESS has struck paydirt again. NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft has found two new super-Earths orbiting a star only 33 light-years away. These are two of the closest rocky planets ever found. The st… [+8152 chars]
