If lunar magma contained significant amounts of gas as suggested by recent studies, how did those gases escape during eruption into the vacuum of space?
After nearly two years of observations of one FRB source, an international team found a definite clue that the FRB resides in a binary star system, with the source of the FRB like a magnetar locked in orbit with a companion star.
Strong, horizontal magnetic fields just below the Sun's surface hidden from direct observation may be responsible for redirecting cosmic rays, leading to the production of the TeV gamma rays observed at Earth.
A study indicates that pairwise velocity could be used as an independent and accurate measurement of the Hubble Constant, offering a new perspective on the Hubble Tension.
Since its launch in 2021, Webb has not only provided us with an array of findings and breathtaking images, but also context to the images captured previously by Hubble.
Sometimes, as a scientist, and if you are very lucky, you come across something so crazy in your research that you have to step back and think what on earth is going on? This article addresses this crazy story in terms of how it actually happened – this is sometimes how real science emerges...
If you pluck a violin string, the string vibrates, driving the air particles around the string to oscillate too, setting up sound waves that propagate in the air. That is why you will hear a note. However, the note will not last long. Through generating sound, the string loses its vibrational energy in the air. The vibrations of the violin string decay. So does the note. Interestingly, a similar phenomenon occurs in perturbed black holes...
Discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility in March 2022, this long period comet reached its closest position to Earth on 1 February, and will only pay its next visit to Earth after another 50,000 years...