An improved quantification of the intergalactic medium and cosmic filaments
Much of the mass in the universe lies not in stars or galaxies, but in the space between them, known as the intergalactic ...
At Harvard, taking the measure of what happened when worlds collided
Along with some 80 items in ‘Measuring Difference’ is a reminder that measurement, in all its forms, is a human invention.
Observations detect the lowest mass ratio contact binary to date
Astronomers from China and South Korea report the detection of a contact binary system with an extremely low mass ratio of only 0.0356. The newfound system, which received the designation TYC ...
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Mars may have made its 2 moons by ripping an asteroid apart
Another hypothesis is that Phobos and Deimos formed very much like Earth's moon did — that an impact on the surface of Mars ...
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A super-Earth beyond Mars would have made Earth nearly uninhabitable
"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...
Life on Mars May Have Appeared Around the Time It Did on Earth
The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.