Creating a cosmic family tree
Astronomers traced the genealogy of a kilonova explosion by using models to find its most likely parent stars.
Category: Astrophysics
A detailed look at a rare meteorite
A carbonaceous meteorite that fell in Costa Rica holds organic compounds that are preserved from the earliest stages of our solar system,…
Using radio signals from exoplanets to detect magnetic fields
An observational technique called ‘beam-forming’ detects exoplanetary radio emissions that allow researchers to calculate exoplanets’…
Mysterious gas found near Milky Way’s center
A mysterious cold gas shooting out of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has left scientists puzzled.
How stars can limit life in the universe
For the past few decades, scientists have been looking at planets outside of our solar system to see if they could host life. Now,…
A new understanding of weather on Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft revealed the atmosphere of Saturn has large regions that don’t cycle to the poles and that the atmosphere is filled…
Can Artificial Intelligence find new planets for us?
On a clear night you might easily see Jupiter, Mars or other planets from our solar system. This is how astronomers from thousands of years…
Using The Big Bang As A Ruler
Baryon acoustic oscillations, an artifact remaining from the Big Bang, can be used by scientists to measure cosmological distances…
An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Through Our Solar System
An asteroid recently came blazing through our solar system and it appears to be an interstellar visitor. The asteroid, dubbed A/2017 U1,…
What Protects Exoplanets from Damaging Solar Flares?
Thanks to NASA’s Kepler Mission, over one-thousand potentially habitable exoplanets have been discovered to-date, orbiting around their…