Neutron stars cool down by emitting neutrinos. A mathematical model now suggests the neutrinos come out…
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Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years
When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface…
The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system
Astronomers think that planets covered in water, with oceans hundreds of metres deep, could be relatively…
Lightest neutron star ever found could contain compressed quarks
A neutron star that is lighter than seems possible could be so small because it is…
JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed the smallest galaxy outside our local universe – and…
Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time
Gases brought back from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft are revealing the asteroid’s…
JWST has taken a star-studded new image of the Pillars of Creation
The Pillars of Creation are huge towers of gas and dust where stars are born, and…
Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen
A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” –…
A black hole ate a star and belched out the remains two years later
A distant black hole shredded a star in 2018, and released a plume of plasma travelling…
Two exoplanets have a strangely heavy element floating in their skies
Astronomers have found barium floating high in the atmospheres of two sweltering exoplanets, and they don’t…