Geology Explains Destructive Debris Flow
A huge debris flow in India that killed over 200 people and destroyed hydropower facilities has been analyzed by a team of scientists who determined climate change the culprit.
Black Holes Can Trigger Gas to Collapse Into Stars
The flares and outbursts of supermassive black holes in the centers of large galaxies can clear the way for orbiting dwarf systems to form stars.
Dying Stars Cause Planets to Lose Their Rhythm
Computer modeling helps scientists understand the repercussions of stellar evolution in a system with four planets in resonance with each other.
Stellar Siblings Found; Both Have Planets
Combing Kepler data with Gaia data leads to the discovery that two stars are related and part of a much larger, diffuse star cluster called Theia 520.
Planetary Atmosphere Parades into Perfect View
The TESS mission finds a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star with the perfect alignment to measure the planet’s atmosphere in detail.
Chinese Rover takes Selfie on Mars
China released the first photos taken by its Zhurong Mars Rover from the surface of Mars, incredibly an adorable selfie taken with a camera it dropped ten meters from the landing site.
Baby Squid Take to Space
128 baby bobtail squid were launched on SpaceX’s most recent resupply mission to the International Space Station to help study how astronauts are affected by microgravity.
NASA Juno Successfully Performs Ganymede Flyby
New images have been released from the first flyby of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, taken by the Juno spacecraft twenty years after the last spacecraft images from Galileo.
Solar Systems Vary From Star Type to Star Type
A comparison of data from the Kepler and K2 mission shows confirms the existence of the sub-Neptune and radius gaps in different planetary systems around different star types.
Star Clusters Are More Than Our Binoculars Can See
Researchers using Gaia announced that an object loved by many amateur astronomers, the Southern Beehive cluster or NGC 2516, is much bigger than what we see in our binoculars.
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