Phys.org – Astronomy

On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries […]

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the thrusters required creativity and risk, but […]

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface.This post was originally published on this site

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have, for the first time, found evidence for cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan, Saturn’s moon.This post was originally published on this site

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.This post […]

A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies.This post was originally published on this site

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe’s most extreme events: the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. This research, led by Professor Jan Plefka at Humboldt University […]

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, so young they are still growing.This post was originally published on this site

When I first started working with integral field spectroscopic (IFU) data, I was struck by how much complexity was being averaged out or masked by traditional processing techniques. Most segmentation methods in astronomy—especially those designed […]

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or “hot Jupiters,” astronomers can spend months or years searching for comparable objects and formations […]