Could One of the Closest Stars to Our Sun Have a Planet Like Earth?
We can find our Solar System’s nearest neighboring stars at a distance of just over four light-years away; Proxima Centauri….
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We can find our Solar System’s nearest neighboring stars at a distance of just over four light-years away; Proxima Centauri….
Astronomers using the NICER X-ray monitor recorded the movement and merging of X-ray spots on a magnetar in a state…
Planetary scientists working with soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by the Hayabusa2 interplanetary station, have published…
Astronomers have determined the age of the Fermi bubbles – giant structures observed in the central zone of the Milky…
Studying planet formation Observing what lies within a circumstellar disc is critical to discovering important insights into the formation of…
Astronomers saw how the kilonova explosion, initiated by the merger of two neutron stars, increased in brightness several years after…
Close binary systems Most massive OB-type main sequence stars are in binary or multiple systems, among which close binary systems…
Planetologists presented the results of studies of the third-largest impact crater Urvara on the dwarf planet Ceres. The results of…
Astronomers discovered a unique spinning black hole. For the first time, they measured with great precision the angle between the…
James Webb’s main mirror The main mirror of the James Webb, consisting of 18 segments, has an area of 25…
Researchers have managed to chart a quarter of the northern hemisphere sky and have revealed never-before-seen details of a total…
Chang’e 4 mission overview The automatic station Chang’e-4 made a soft landing on the far side of the moon on…
The new observatory will be able to track interstellar objects The operating time of the telescope will be divided into…
Astronomers confirmed the first quadruple asteroid in history – this is Elektra from the Main Belt, which has now acquired…
The Solar Orbiter recorded the birth and evolution of a giant coronal mass ejection on the Sun, which became the…
Astronomers have discovered the most severely separated brown dwarf binary system to date – the distance between the components of…
The fact that the weather on the Sun affects the operation of technology on Earth has been known for a…
Understanding solar storms Under certain conditions, bursts of energetic particles can reach the Earth and even paralyze communications and power…
What is the unified model of active galactic nuclei? A unified model of active galactic nuclei was developed at the…
Alcyoneus – the biggest galactic structure ever discovered Located about 3 billion light-years from Earth, Alcyoneus is what is known…
The new X-ray telescope IXPE has transmitted the first scientific data to Earth, thanks to which astronomers have built a…
Scientists published new results of the analysis of observational data from the station and descent vehicles that studied asteroid Ryugu…