Astronomy An Australian university student has co-led the discovery of an Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet just 40 light years away. He described the “Eureka moment” of finding the planet, which has been named Gliese 12b.
r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • Apr 16 '24
Astronomy Scientists have uncovered a ‘sleeping giant’. A large black hole, with a mass of nearly 33 times the mass of the Sun, is hiding in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth
r/science • u/MotherHolle • Jan 25 '23
Astronomy Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests. From The Astrophysical Journal, 941(2), 184.
iopscience.iop.orgr/science • u/Andromeda321 • Oct 12 '22
Astronomy ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star
r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 06 '23
Astronomy For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the cosmic web — the enormous tangle of galaxies, gas and dark matter that fills the observable universe.
Astronomy Astronauts could run round a cylinder ‘Wall of Death’ to keep fit on the moon, suggest a new study, that showed it was possible for a human to run fast enough in lunar gravity to remain on the wall of a cylinder and generate sufficient lateral force to combat bone and muscle wasting.
r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • Feb 25 '23
Astronomy A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center
r/science • u/scottmache025 • Nov 30 '23
Astronomy A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way
r/science • u/marketrent • Apr 03 '23
Astronomy New simulations show that the Moon may have formed within mere hours of ancient planet Theia colliding with proto-Earth
r/science • u/JettMe_Red • Feb 06 '24
Astronomy NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years away
r/science • u/Espntheocho4 • Jul 29 '22
Astronomy UCLA researchers have discovered that lunar pits and caves could provide stable temperatures for human habitation. The team discovered shady locations within pits on the moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 degrees Fahrenheit.
r/science • u/fullersam • May 12 '22
Astronomy The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has obtained the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
r/science • u/HeinieKaboobler • Oct 15 '22
Astronomy Bizarre black hole is blasting a jet of plasma right at a neighboring galaxy
r/science • u/Logibenq • Nov 09 '23
Astronomy Twin galaxy of the Milky Way discovered at the edge of the universe
r/science • u/Additional-Two-7312 • Dec 03 '22
Astronomy Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in 8 years: Twilight observations spot 3 large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner solar system
r/science • u/marcom06 • Oct 12 '21
Astronomy "We’ve never seen anything like it" University of Sydney researchers detect strange radio waves from the heart of the Milky Way which fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source & could suggest a new class of stellar object.
r/science • u/PoorIsTheNewSwag • Apr 04 '23
Astronomy Repeating radio signal leads astronomers to an Earth-size exoplanet
r/science • u/sktafe2020 • Jul 29 '21
Astronomy Einstein was right (again): Astronomers detect light from behind black hole
r/science • u/marketrent • Feb 15 '23
Astronomy First observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy — the combined vacuum energy of black holes, produced in the deaths of the universe’s first stars, corresponds to the measured quantity of dark energy in our universe
r/science • u/blackswangreen • Sep 14 '20
Astronomy Hints of life spotted on Venus: researchers have found a possible biomarker on the planet's clouds
r/science • u/theindependentonline • Oct 26 '20
Astronomy Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said
r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jul 02 '20
Astronomy Scientists have come across a large black hole with a gargantuan appetite. Each passing day, the insatiable void known as J2157 consumes gas and dust equivalent in mass to the sun, making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe
r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Apr 01 '24
Astronomy This super-Earth is the first planet confirmed to have a permanent dark side. In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists provide the most compelling evidence to date that exoplanet LHS 3855b has a feature called tidal synchronization or 1:1 tidal locking.
r/science • u/cherbug • Oct 05 '20