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Moon-forming disk discovered around distant planet: Astronomers report first observations of a 'circumplanetary disk'

The find, reported online today in Astrophysical Journal Letters, adds to the intriguing story of planet PDS 70 c, a still-forming gas giant about 370 light years from Earth that was first revealed last month in visible light images. Using the massive 66-antenna Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in

Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation: New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.

New research being presented here finds mold spores may also survive on the outside walls of spacecraft.

Black hole brings down curtain on jellyfish galaxy's star turn

Jellyfish galaxies are spectacular objects that undergo a dramatic process of transformation as they plunge through the dense core of a galaxy cluster at supersonic speeds.

Atmosphere of midsize planet revealed by Hubble, Spitzer

The planet, Gliese 3470 b (also known as GJ 3470 b), may be a cross between Earth and Neptune, with a large rocky core buried under a deep, crushing hydrogen-and-helium atmosphere.

Dutch Company Reveals An Electric Car That Charges Itself With Sunlight

A Dutch company has unveiled an electric car that charges itself with via solar power.

Mercury Retrograde Of Summer 2019: Checking In With Our Heart

Mercury began the latest edition of its retrograde process on July 7th/8th, starting in Leo with the majority of it occurring in Cancer.

Harvard Ponders What “Dose” of Aerosols To Spray Into Earth’s Atmosphere For Their Geoengineering Program

Harvard recently published a study examining what would be the right 'dose' of aerosols to spray into the atmosphere in order, according to them, reflect the sunlight away from the planet.

NASA's Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts

"Each burst is in some way unique," said Magnus Axelsson, an astrophysicist at Stockholm University in Sweden.

Astronomers make first detection of polarized radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the universe, beaming out mighty jets which travel through space at over 99.9% the speed of light, as a star much more massive than our sun collapses at the end of its life to produce a black hole. Studying

Northern lights' 'social networking' reveals true scale of magnetic storms

The researchers, led by Professor Sandra Chapman from the University's Department of Physics, have for the first time characterised the observations from over 100 ground based magnetometers in terms of a time-varying directed network of connections. They monitored the development of geomagnetic substorms using the same mathematics used to study

NASA's Cassini reveals New Sculpting in Saturn Rings

Although the mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data collected.

Rare 'superflares' could one day threaten Earth

These events occur when stars, for reasons that scientists still don't understand, eject huge bursts of energy that can be seen from hundreds of light years away.

Meteors help Martian clouds form

Astronomers have long observed clouds in Mars' middle atmosphere, which begins about 18 miles (30 kilometers) above the surface, but have struggled to explain how they formed.

Sun's history found buried in Moon's crust

When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system..

Table salt compound spotted on Europa: Finding prompts a rethinking of the icy moon's subsurface ocean

The discovery suggests that the salty subsurface ocean of Europa may chemically resemble Earth's oceans more than previously thought, challenging decades of supposition about the composition of those waters and making them potentially a lot more interesting for study. The finding was published in Science Advances on June 12. Flybys