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Scientists Find a Quadruple Star System in Our Cosmic Backyard  The New York Times These Rare Star Systems Are A New Tool To Understand Brown Dwarfs  Universe Today Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Hierarchical Quadruple System  Sci.News Identifying a Rare Binary System of Stars and Brown Dwarfs  AZoQuantum 1st-of-its-kind quadruple star system could reveal secrets of ‘failed star’ brown dwarfs  Space Source link

The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission. The X-37B is an uncrewed craft that, just like the USA’s retired Space Shuttle, launches on a rocket and after re-entry makes an unpowered landing on a terrestrial runway. The vehicle has engines it can use to maneuver in space, but in 2024 deliberately grazed Earth’s …

In the world of stratigraphy, or rock layers, superficial sediments are usually younger than the deeper ones they settle upon. The North Sea, however, has revealed giant mounds of sand that defy this geological principle on a scale scientists have never seen before. Researchers from Norway and the UK have identified hundreds of sand bodies under the North Sea that …

Exoplanets might hold hidden clues about dark matter. New research suggests these distant worlds could even collapse into black holes, challenging existing theories. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation. Astronomers have identified more than 5,000 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. These distant worlds, known as …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A little bit of Jacksonville is heading to space. Experiments from research at Mayo Clinic are going to be practiced during NASA’s 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply mission in space, which is scheduled to launch early Sunday morning. A Jacksonville doctor is behind it all. The research through Mayo Clinic is going to be a part of NASA’s …

But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that only applied to certain irrational values of alpha. By combining it with an intermediate proof that came before it, they could say the problem was solved. But this combined proof wasn’t elegant. It was a patchwork quilt, each square stitched out of …

Just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder – a rare black moon is rising this weekend  AOL.com What’s a black moon? Here’s what to expect this weekend  CNN ‘Blood moon’ 2025: Will the Sept. 7 total lunar eclipse be visible from North America?  Live Science There will be a ‘Black Moon’ this weekend in Portland. What does that mean?  KGW What is a …

A dazzling bolt of radio light from across intergalactic space is the most powerful of its kind seen to date – and its location has been tracked with unprecedented precision. On 16 March 2025, the CHIME radio telescope in Canada recorded a one-off fast radio burst ( FRB) so powerful, astronomers initially weren’t sure about what they were looking at …

When NASA’s Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this strange and beautiful planetoid. As the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt, accounting for more than 39% of its total mass, Ceres is the only object in the Belt that has undergone hydrostatic equilibrium (aka. became round under …

Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser with the ultrashort X-ray laser flash of the European XFEL. Credit: HZDR / M. Künsting Researchers have completed a groundbreaking experiment at the European XFEL. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), set …