The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...

A galaxy-mapping satellite could be used to find alien life—maybe. At least that’s the idea behind a pre-print study recently posted on ArXiv.org to spark community dialogue. The paper states that ESA ...

Astronomers have directly detected and imaged a gas giant orbiting another star by combining different techniques for hunting exoplanets. Researchers first looked at a catalog of star-mapping data ...

Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent molecular ...

The newfound exoplanet HIP 99770 b (circled), is seen circling its host star in these images by Japan's Subaru Telescope. Data from Europe’s star-mapping Gaia spacecraft revealed the likely presence ...

The star-mapping Gaia satellite was struck by high-speed micrometeoroid, and it left a gap in the shield, scientists say. ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Science fiction movies that show ...

TOULOUSE, France — Europe’s Gaia satellite, designed to provide a 3-D map of 1 billion stars in the Milky Way and plot their movement, mass, composition and age, is set to leave its manufacturing site ...

Not for dissemination in the United States or through U.S. newswires --Drilling Reaches 400m Target Depth Testing IP ...

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Photo credit: iStock.com/TkKurikawa Shanghai China - November 1, 2016: People visit Disney shop in Pudong in Shanghai China. A new patent held by Disney suggests the ...

Using Rhythm AI Ltd.'s stochastic trajectory analysis of ranked signals (STAR) mapping system with pulmonary vein isolation terminated and eliminated recurrence of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ...