by quasarn01 | Jul 14, 2026 | Astronomy
More than a century after Albert Einstein first transformed our understanding of gravity, his general theory of relativity continues to withstand ever more demanding experimental tests. Now, an international team led by Ignazio Ciufolini at the Chinese Academy of...
by quasarn01 | Jul 13, 2026 | Astronomy
After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; that it had extraordinarily little water. That all began to change in 2009 with new data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and...
by quasarn01 | Jul 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, four white dwarfs in binary star systems in our nearby region of space. These stellar binaries are all within 65 light-years of Earth, and one...
by quasarn01 | Jul 13, 2026 | Astronomy
Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports that images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during a flyby revealed six large landslides in three impact craters. Go to Source
by quasarn01 | Jul 13, 2026 | Astronomy
The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope...
by quasarn01 | Jul 13, 2026 | Astronomy
The planets that appear most common in the universe could have a lot of water—but it could be hiding where telescopes can’t detect it, according to a new study led by scientists with the University of Chicago. Go to Source
