Einstein Probe's X-ray vision discovers an 'impossible' pair of vampire stars
The two stars are taking turns feeding off one another.
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New Mars terraforming idea: engineered, heat-absorbing dust nanoparticles
'This research … potentially brings us one step closer to the long-held dream of establishing a sustainable human presence on Mars.'
Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass
The Vela Supercluster spans 300 million light years, located on average 870 million light years away from us.
This may be the daughter of one of our universe's 1st stars. Scientists call it an 'ancient immigrant'
The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.
Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel
JWST spotted carbon in a small galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang.
What would it be like living on Tatooine from 'Star Wars'? This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us
Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets.
Vast swarms of hidden galaxies may be secretly bathing the universe in a soft glow
"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those missing pieces were going to be."
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests
"Its special properties make the galaxy an ideal candidate for further research into merging black holes and the associated gravitational waves."
Venus' 'missing' giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight
'If this is really an impact structure, it would be Venus' oldest and largest, giving us a rare glimpse into Venus' past and informing early planet processes.'
On ancient Mars, carbon dioxide ice kept the water running. Here's how
By 3.6 billion years ago, Mars should have become too cold for liquid water, but something kept the rivers flowing.