Kepler-10c – an Exoplanet
Kepler-10c is an exoplanet that orbits the G-type star Kepler-10, which is 608 light-years away in Draco. Kepler reported its finding in May 2011, while…
Astronomy
Methane could be the First Evident Sign of Life on other Planets
Earth had almost no atmosphere when it formed 4.6 billion years ago from a hot mix of gases and solids. The ground was molten. As…
Hubble Investigates Extreme Weather on Super-heated Jupiters
Astronomers have discovered bloated Jupiter-sized planets that are so close to their parent star that they are being roasted at temperatures well above 3,000 degrees…
Exoplanet Atmosphere Classification opens up a New Field of Research
A multinational team of researchers studied data from 25 exoplanets and discovered some correlations between atmospheric features such as heat profiles and chemical abundances. This…
The Worldwide Coordinated Quest for Dark Matter
An international team of researchers, led by the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), has…
New Assortment of Globular Clusters contains insights to Galaxy Evolution
Using images of Centaurus A, a neighboring elliptical galaxy, taken with the Gaia space telescope and ground-based equipment as part of the PISCeS survey, a…
How can Galaxies exist in the Absence of Dark Matter?
Astrophysicists report that when tiny galaxies collide with larger ones, the larger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter – matter that…
Solar Flares’ Mysterious Finger-like Properties are explained by Scientists
The Sun’s surface is a hive of activity. It contains electrically charged gases that produce zones of strong magnetic fields. These are known as magnetic…
There are Far more Disk Galaxies than Theory Allows
According to most physicists, the Standard Model of Cosmology depicts how the universe came into being. The evolution of galaxies within this model has now…
Mathematical Discovery could Reveal Universe Mysteries
A mathematical breakthrough could aid scientists in unifying Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity and the realm of quantum physics into a single universal idea. According…
Fast Radio Bursts could explain the Puzzle of the Universe’s Expansion
Two teams of astronomers set out in the early 1990s to measure the universe’s expansion history in order to forecast its future. If the universal…
The Largest Spinning Objects in Space may be Cosmic Filaments
Moons, stars, and even entire galaxies do it. Now, two teams of scientists claim that cosmic filaments do it as well. These hundreds of millions…
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