At NASA’s Cold Atom Lab facility aboard the International Space Station, an international team of scientists produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms for the first time in…
Category: Astronomy
Black Holes Could Come in ‘Perfect Pairs’ in an Ever Expanding Universe
Researchers from the University of Southampton, together with colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Barcelona, have shown it’s theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectly balanced pairs…
Galactic ‘Lightsabers’: Answering Longstanding Questions About Jets from Black Holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. “Even though black holes are defined as objects from which…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible. “Roman will…
‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to exoplanets
How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that comets could have delivered them. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge have…
NASA: Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope,…
Decarbonizing Light-Duty Transportation in the US: Strategies to Achieve Goal
One of the goals outlined by the Biden administration’s National Climate Task Force in 2021 was to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. Transportation,…
NASA’s Lucy Surprises Again, Observes 1st-ever Contact Binary Orbiting Asteroid
There is more to the “marvelous” asteroid Dinkinesh and its newly discovered satellite than first meets the eye, as NASA’s Lucy mission revealed. As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft continued to return data…
NASA’s Juno: Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers
The Juno mission finding offers deeper insights into the long-debated internal structure of the gas giant Jupiter. Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the…
Record-Smashing Black Hole Born in Universe’s Infancy
An international team of astrophysicists, including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James…
