New model calculations shows impact of star’s brightness and magnetic activity

Stars with low magnetic field strength exhibit a more pronounced limb darkening than those with a…

A new type of seismic sensor to detect moonquakes

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels During the Apollo missions of the 1970s, several seismometers were flown to…

New tidal stellar stream discovered with Gaia

The density distributions of three subsamples from Gaia DR3 with different proper motion ranges are shown…

BepiColombo detects escaping oxygen and carbon in unexplored region of Venus’s magnetosphere

Schematic view of planetary material escaping through Venus magnetosheath flank. The red line and arrow show…

Stellar winds of three sun-like stars detected for the first time

Infrared image of the shockwave (red arc) created by the massive giant star Zeta Ophiuchi in…

Researchers confirm brightest gamma-ray burst of all time came from the collapse of a massive star

Artist’s visualization of GRB 221009A showing the narrow relativistic jets—emerging from a central black hole—that gave…

NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter’s possibly life-sustaining moon

NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft is headed for one of Jupiter’s moons to see if it has…

Examining the blowtorch effect of satellite reentry through video

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A reaction wheel—one of the heaviest parts of a space mission, its…

Clash of stars solves stellar mystery

This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, shows the beautiful…

In Russia’s Far East, a new heavy-lift rocket blasts off into space after two aborted launches

In this grab taken from video released by the Roscosmos space corporation on Thursday, April 11,…