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Astronomers are preparing to employ the upcoming Square Kilometre Array to conduct detailed radio observations of low-density plasma in galaxy filaments and cluster outskirts, Sciencecast reports. The project aims to ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile began the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The survey employs the facility’s 6,600-pound camera to repeatedly image the southern sky. It will collect data for research ...
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope obtained a transmission spectrum of the young exoplanet AU Mic b, but unstable scanning and strong stellar activity limited the analysis of its atmosphere. The observations...
Astronomers from the University of St Andrews used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the transit of the Jupiter-sized exoplanet WD 1856 b across a white dwarf star, measuring its mass, temperature and atmosphe...
Researchers led by Mats Esseldeurs of the University of Leuven and Stéphane Mathis of CEA Paris-Saclay published a study in Astronomy & Astrophysics that suggests Earth could avoid being engulfed when the Sun expands ...
The European Southern Observatory released a study recommending that the total number of Earth-orbiting satellites be limited to 100,000 to protect ground-based astronomy. Led by astronomer Olivier Hainaut, the resear...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory reported that its LSST camera completed its first year of on-sky observations, demonstrating reliable operation of its 189 CCD sensors and confirming readiness for the Legacy Survey of Sp...
The University of Minnesota announced the creation of synthetic cells that can feed, grow and divide, according to a report by The New York Times. The cells were constructed from nonliving chemical components and demo...
Scientists at the underground SNO+ laboratory in Ontario, Canada reported detecting antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a water-filled detector. The antineutrinos originated from a reactor located roughly 150 m...
A simulation study examined how variations in stellar-evolution inputs affect the upper limit of the pair-instability supernova black-hole mass gap, identifying the 12C(α,γ)16O reaction as the main source of uncertainty.
Researchers reported a tentative detection of neutrino mass after adopting a higher optical depth to reionization in their cosmological analysis, according to Sciencecast. The study employed a prior of τ = 0. 11 ± 0. ...
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the Natural History Museum identified a tail vertebra collected in 1985 on James Ross Island as the first dinosaur fossil discovered in Antarctica. The bone had been st...
A team of seismologists led by Meghan Miller of the Australian National University mapped a 250-kilometre linear cluster of small earthquakes that traces the edge of the subducted Yakutat slab beneath central Alaska, ...
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