An international team of astronomers have used the High Precision Radial Velocity Planet Hunter (HARPS) to perform radial velocity (VR) follow-up observations in the planetary…
An ancient worm is resurrected after 46,000 years in limbo, defying death
An international effort to revive an ancient roundworm, frozen in the Siberian permafrost for millennia, has uncovered a form of life even older than scientists…
Astronomers find evidence of a new method of formation of giant planets
At the center of this image is the young star V960 Mon located more than 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with…
Astronomers “Surprised” by Strange Bilateral Star
For the first time in the case of white dwarfs, astronomers have discovered that at least one member of this cosmic family, the burnt-out cores…
Astronomers find a massive galaxy without dark matter that questions the standard model of cosmology
An international investigation, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), finds the first evidence of a…
Invisible supernovae called ‘bosenovae’ may be exploding all around us, new research suggests
Throughout the universe, unseen stars may be dying in high-energy explosions, and new research suggests how scientists might detect these unseen catastrophes. In a paper…
Something inexplicable has sent signals to Earth since 1988: “Time will tell what they hide”
“Only time will tell what else is hidden in these data, and what observations across many astronomical time scales will reveal,” says an astronomer not…
China presents preliminary plan for manned landing on the Moon
The Asian country will also explore the construction of a lunar scientific research station and carry out long-term and systematic lunar exploration. the Moon before…
A strange two-faced star baffles astronomers
One of them composed of hydrogen and the other of helium Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star that has two faces, one of which…
Scientists explore the mysteries of black holes with a high-tech bathtub
At the end of a nondescript corridor at the University of Nottingham is a door labeled simply: Black Hole Laboratory. Inside, an experiment is taking…