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Bizarre star bridge links galaxy to runaway black hole
Scientists have identified a 200,000-light-years-long trail of young blue stars - a star bridge - linking a runaway black hole and the galaxy it's escaping.
April 7, 2023
Navigate a new Mars map of craters and volcanoes
A new Mars map mosaic lets scientists and the public alike zoom in on surface features on the red planet. Learn more about this interactive map here.
April 6, 2023
Alpha Centauri planets? TOLIMAN will search
Are there any habitable planets orbiting the 2 sun-like stars of Alpha Centauri? We don't know yet, but the TOLIMAN mission will search for them.
April 6, 2023
Giant exoplanet has 2 suns and swirling sand
NASA's Webb space telescope has detected swirling, gritty clouds of silicates and numerous molecules in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet 40 light-years away.
April 5, 2023
Volcanoes on Venus … Wow! New map here
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have compiled a new global map of the known volcanoes on Venus ... All 85,000 of them.
April 4, 2023
Innermost TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet is hot and airless
NASA's Webb space telescope has found that TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, is airless and too hot for life.
April 2, 2023
Icy rain from Saturn’s rings is heating the planet
A new discovery shows an icy rain from Saturn's rings affects the planet's atmosphere. This insight could help lead to the discovery of rings around exoplanets.
March 30, 2023
Brightest gamma-ray burst of ‘all time’
The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time - or at least so far - blasted into the collective consciousness of earthly astronomers on October 9, 2022.
March 30, 2023
Terminator zones and the search for life
A new study shows that exoplanet terminator zones - regions on worlds with permanent day and night sides - might be able to support life.
March 28, 2023
What is a neutron star? How do they form?
A neutron star is born from a supernova explosion. They contain a couple of times the mass of our sun, squeezed into a sphere the size of a city on Earth.
March 28, 2023
