Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?
A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.
A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.
The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “the Cow,” may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects.
Report led by MIT scientists details a suite of privately-funded missions to hunt for life on Earth's sibling planet.
The boiling new world, which zips around its star at ultraclose range, is among the lightest exoplanets found to date.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” the physics professor says. “With a computer, we can create different universes, which we can check.”
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.
Such planetary smashups are likely common in young solar systems, but they haven’t been directly observed.
The cosmic boundary, perhaps caused by a young Jupiter or an emerging wind, likely shaped the composition of infant planets.
The results provide a blueprint for finding such systems in the universe’s quieter, emptier regions.
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease.
In a 3Q, Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.
Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.