progscrape: astronomy

This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope 70 years ago to potential artificial objects in space, providing an opportunity for UFO enthusiasts to see how extraordinary claims are tested—and often undone—by science.

5 months ago scientificamerican.com astronomy

Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" exoplanet - 4 times the mass of the Earth - in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 22 light years away

5 months ago psu.edu astronomy earth

Scientists capture an image of two black holes orbiting each other for the first time, the observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs

5 months ago utu.fi astronomy

Astronomers Find Mystery Dark Object in Distant Universe

5 months ago ucdavis.edu astronomy universe

Prospect of Life On Saturn's Moons Rises After Discovery of Organic Substances

6 months ago theguardian.com astronomy space

New results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, now published in Nature, reveal how light reflecting off Bennu’s surface bears witness to impacts across the solar system.

5 months ago purdue.edu astronomy nasa

A detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf 54 light-years from Earth deepens the mystery of phosphorus chemistry throughout the Milky Way

6 months ago sciencealert.com astronomy earth

The new study investigates coronal heating using remote diagnostics from solar radio bursts with in situ measurements near the Sun

6 months ago doi.org astronomy

Research has uncovered a colossal bridge of neutral hydrogen gas linking two dwarf galaxies

6 months ago icrar.org astronomy

The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that may contain evidence of ancient alien life—is still worth getting excited about

6 months ago scientificamerican.com astronomy