Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

The distant planet appears to be in the shape of a lemon as the pulsar's intense gravity stretches the planet.

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

For hot, Jupiter-mass planets around normal stars, astronomers often look for molecules such as water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide. These show up repeatedly in planetary atmosphere models ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...

Recent data from the Cassini mission to Saturn have shed new light on the surface of the saturnian moon Iapetus, particularly the presence and movement of carbon dioxide. University of Arizona ...

Scientists have discovered a method to transform mesoscopic molecular assemblies into dimensionally distinct out-of-equilibrium structures. (Nanowerk News) Constructing out-of-equilibrium molecular ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

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Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

Surging emissions from wildfires may have been behind the increase, which was the largest since modern measurements began more than half a century ago. By Raymond Zhong and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The ...