Bright auroras, with dancing lights in the sky, characterize the clear winter nights of northern Canada.…
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Model suggests some asteroids that come close to Earth are torn apart by its gravity
Examples of ensemble orbit distributions that could result from a large number of tidal disruptions of…
Zwicky Transient Facility detects four ultracompact binaries
ZTF data of ZTF20aabowdt. On the left, the upper panel shows the lightcurve, the middle panel…
A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’…
SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft on research mission
In operation since 2010, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle was designed for the Air Force by…
Indian astronomers explore open cluster NGC 6940 with AstroSat
The spatial distribution, proper motion, and parallax distributions of the members of NGC 6940 and sample…
Russia, NASA agree to continue joint ISS flights until 2025
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Russian and US space agencies have agreed to keep working together to…
Further evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars
Artist’s impression of the different layers inside a massive neutron star, with the red circle representing…
Japan sets third launch attempt of next-gen rocket for February
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Japan’s space agency announced Thursday it will launch its next-generation H3 rocket…
New study shows Small Magellanic Cloud is actually two smaller galaxies
Top: Intensity-weighted mean velocity map of the SMC from Pingel et al (2022). The single contour…