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Electron Microscope Discovers Cosmological Building Blocks of Life

Meteorites are asteroid fragments that arrive on Earth like shooting stars.

31 Jan 2024

Supernova Explosion Driven by the Black Hole Eating its Binary Companion

A black hole-powered supernova explosion that consumes its binary companion.

11 Jan 2024

Funding Available for Technology Development Research Leveraging International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory is soliciting flight concepts for technology development that would utilize the space-based environment of the orbiting laboratory.

11 Jan 2024

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Methane Glow on Cold Brown Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere.

10 Jan 2024

Oxygen, The Cosmic Key to Detecting Alien Technology

Astrophysicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester investigates the connections between atmospheric oxygen and finding evidence of alien technology on far-off planets.

3 Jan 2024

Realizing the Nature of Cosmic Rays via Novel Plasma Instability

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have identified a novel plasma instability that might fundamentally alter the understanding of cosmic ray origins and their dynamic effects on galaxies.

13 Dec 2023

Webb Uncovers Mysteries of Cas A

Objects in space offer diverse insights into their composition and behaviors when observed across various wavelengths of light. Among the extensively studied entities within the Milky Way is the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A).

11 Dec 2023

High-Resolution Telescope Data Reveals Unusually Young Stars at Heart of the Milky Way

By examining high-resolution data obtained from a 10 m telescope in Hawaii, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have attained fresh insights into three stars situated at the core of the Milky Way.

6 Dec 2023

Unveiling the Mystery of Black Hole Influence on Galaxies

A global group of astronomers discovered an entirely new way to analyze the behavior of active black holes.

5 Dec 2023

Media Advisory: ESA Emphasises Space-Based Solutions During COP28

As a world leader in Earth observation and space for climate topics, the European Space Agency will showcase programmes, applications and solutions that help to improve climate science, technology and action at the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28).

29 Nov 2023