6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (624+ words) A neutron star is what remains after the core of a massive star collapses. It is not a small ordinary star. It is the crushed core of a dead one, compressed until protons and electrons are forced together and most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (400+ words) When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researcher discovered…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (149+ words) NASA Science (.gov) Spacesuits, Exercise, and Cargo Ops Wrap Week Aboard Station NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Builds Momentum Through 25th Flight NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (367+ words) Those little dust grains that fall to Earth during meteor showers or end up as part of larger meteorites found on Earth may hold surprising clues to the formation of the Sun. That's because they record the state of the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (807+ words) Voyager 2, a pioneer in outer solar system exploration, left Earth for interstellar space 49 years ago, on August 20, 1977. The twin of Voyager 1, which left Earth only a few weeks after, is the only spacecraft to visit all four of the solar…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (801+ words) Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this "solar nebula" underwent a huge transformation, flattening into a disk of matter that then condensed…...

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2+ week, 4+ day ago   (723+ words) Astronomers have discovered a massive rocky exoplanet with extreme density and a bizarre tilted orbit around a nearby star. Astronomers have found Gliese 523b, a bizarre exoplanet that combines a huge size, extreme density and a highly unusual orbit around its…...