First transiting exoplanet’s ‘chemical fingerprint’ reveals its distant birthplace Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its […]
Harnessing socially distant molecular interactions for future computing Could long-distance interactions between individual molecules forge a new way to compute? Interactions between individual molecules on a metal surface extend for surprisingly large distances—up to several nanometers. A new study, […]
Study investigates emission from a distant red quasar Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of astronomers has performed observations of HSC J120505.09−000027.9—the most distant red quasar so far detected […]
Tree rings may hold clues to impacts of distant supernovas on Earth Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years from Earth may have left traces in our planet’s biology and geology, according to new […]
Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails and comae—clouds of […]
Einstein’s theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer […]