Stars less than half the mass of our Sun may host giant worlds like Jupiter, in conflict with the most widely accepted theory of how…
Persistent influence of supernovae on marine biodiversity
The number of exploding stars (supernovae) has significantly influenced the biodiversity of marine life over the last 500 million years. This is the gist of…
Galaxy changes rankings as the jet changes direction
A team of international astronomers has discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its nucleus. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343,…
Astronomers say ‘terminator zones’ on distant planets could harbor alien life
Some exoplanets have one side permanently facing their star while the other side is in perpetual darkness. The ring-shaped border between these permanent day and…
Venus may have been as habitable as Earth, with oceans and lakes, but only 3 billion years ago.
American researchers have determined that Venus may have had oceans and lakes up to 3 billion years ago, but much shallower than those on Earth.…
Blocked worlds can support life at the day-night divide
The region that straddles the dividing line between the day and night sides of star-locked exoplanets has unique potential to support life, a new study…
How “speed demons” could help us understand our universe
New research suggests that hypervelocity stars originated in the center of the Milky Way, as a result of the interaction of a binary star and…
Physicists have observed the reflection of an electromagnetic wave in time for the first time
Now researchers from the Center for Advanced Scientific Research at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC), in the United States, publish in the journal ‘Nature…
Astronomers discover the “missing link” that explains the origin of water in the solar system
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. This water carries a…
James Webb has discovered a galaxy extinguished by a supermassive black hole that became a quasar
Scientists have discovered a galaxy in which star formation has stopped. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped. this is what we know GS-9209 is…