Space/Planetary Science

New research by astrophysicists at the University of Kent reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating the different stages in the life journey of stars and gaining new…

Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the universeCredit: The Sherwood Simulation Suite Moving through cosmic forests and spider webs in…

Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe.…

A Columbia study suggests chunks of an exomoon's dusty outer layers of ice, gas and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding starCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For years, astronomers have looked up at the sky and…

Credit: BSaxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Neutron stars - the compressed remains of massive stars gone supernova - are the densest "normal" objects in the known universe. (Black holes are technically denser, but far from normal.) Just a single…

Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough uncovered through the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County. The neutron star,…

An international team headed by UNIGE has discovered that the properties of molecular clouds, and the number of stars they produce, are different depending on whether they are in distant or nearby galaxiesCredit: © UNIGE, Dessauges et NASA,…

Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in multiple colors. The image of the newly discovered object, denoted C/2019 Q4 (Borisov),…

NASA to award RIT and Dartmouth grant to develop highly sensitive detector for future missions NASA announced it is awarding a team of researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College a grant to develop a detector…

Credit: ESO/VMC Survey The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163 000 light years from Earth. With its sibling the Small Magellanic Cloud, these are among the nearest dwarf satellite…