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Astronomy Jun 23, 2025

Vera Rubin observatory reveals stunning first images

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids were revealed Monday in the first deep space images captured by the Vera C. Rubin ...

Plants & Animals Jun 22, 2025

Moth uses stars to navigate long distances, scientists discover

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said Wednesday, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances.

Planetary Sciences Jun 18, 2025

Stellar flybys have not altered Earth's climate in the past 56 million years, study finds

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, the moon moves through light and shadow, and the sun hangs in the sky. But in reality, everything ...

Plants & Animals Jun 18, 2025

Stargazing flight: How Bogong moths use the night sky to navigate hundreds of kilometers

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the Milky Way to navigate hundreds of kilometers across the country during its annual migration—making ...

Astronomy Jun 16, 2025

Studies shed light on dark matter by simulating twins of our Milky Way galaxy

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the universe: dark matter, the invisible ...

Astronomy Jun 11, 2025

In the belly of the beast: Massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies across the local universe. The findings provide a rare glimpse into processes shaping galaxies in the ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2025

Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy's center puzzle scientists

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of the Milky Way. The researchers ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2025

New map of Milky Way in atomic hydrogen reveals its clumped 'flocculent' nature for first time

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has co-authored a paper that uses young stars to develop a more accurate ...

Astronomy Jun 10, 2025

Astronomers perform a long-term investigation of open cluster Berkeley 65

Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have employed the Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) to conduct long-term photometric observations of an open ...

Astronomy Jun 9, 2025

Where did cosmic rays come from? Astrophysicists are closer to finding out

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from?

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