09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
...order to try and understand what an exoplanet is made of, researchers need to measure both its radius and its mass, which ...three planets," said Sharon Wang, a co-author on the recent research paper detailing these results. "But they do seem like some...
14 March 2018
Researchers rethink quasar connection after new find
... galaxies. This apparently symbiotic relationship was a boon for researchers as quasars swiftly became the default object in which ...the HSC protoclusters. Hopefully, with those new observations researchers will be able to clarify the growth history of ...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... that the missing CO could be hidden away in a subsurface ocean. It would not be the first time though, that researchers have postulated that a subsurface ocean exists under Pluto’s icy crust. The jury is not out completely...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
... its atmosphere showed that it contained sodium. Previous research into large amounts of sodium emanating from an exoplanet, ...set-up might seem like a recipe for disaster, but research conducted by scientists at the University of Virginia in 2006 ...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... almost futile then to search for planets suitable for life in these systems. Not so, say an international team of researchers who have developed a new mathematical framework to account for all of the dynamical variables circumbinary planets have...
18 June 2021
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar has slowed by a quarter, say researchers
A 30 year suspicion that the spinning bar at the centre of our galaxy is slowing down has been confirmed by researchers at UK institutions. Whats more, according to their study it has slowed by about a quarter since its formation nearly 14 billion ...
