This still from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a swirling disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group A team of…
Category: Space
New habitable Earth-sized planet only 40 lightyears away with the same temperature as the 2022 UK heatwave
Scientists from the University of Warwick have helped discover a new habitable Earth-sized planet– only a short 40 light years away. In this artist’s concept, Gliese 12 b is shown…
Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst
Shocked quartz and amorphous silica The researchers are particularly interested in the presence of shocked quartz, indicated by a pattern of lines, called lamellae, that shows stress great enough to…
A hero, a crown, and possibly a nova
Look up after sunset during summer months to find Hercules! Scan between Vega and Arcturus, near the distinct pattern of Corona Borealis. Once you find its stars, use binoculars or…
Webb captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc
An international team of astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. This is the first…
The Milky Way’s eROSITA bubbles are large and distant
X-ray image of the eROSITA bubbles. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license In 2020, astronomers discovered a large hourglass-shaped structure in or near the center of our Milky Way…
NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew ‘not stranded’ on ISS
Starliner docked with the ISS on June 6 for what was meant to be roughly a week-long stay, but their departure has been pushed back multiple times because of thruster…
NASA astronauts will stay at the space station longer for more troubleshooting of Boeing capsule
This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, on June 13, 2024.…
With a new, incredibly precise instrument, researchers narrow search for dark energy
Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new…
Telltale greenhouse gases could signal alien activity
If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we could tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would be giveaways…
