Astronomers Spot a White Dwarf That's Still Consuming its Planets
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Astronomers found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf actively accreting material from its former planetary system. This discovery challenges assumptions about the late stages of stellar remnant evolution....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:48 +0000
Chang'e-6 Samples Indicate Water was Delivered to the Earth and Moon by Ancient Meteorites
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A research team with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) examined samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission from the far side of the Moon. They identified minerals that appear to be from a carbonaceous chondrite meteor, which are known to contain water a...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:05 +0000
How do we find cosmic voids?
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To answer that question of what’s inside a void, we have to first decide what a void…is....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:59 +0000
Scientists Confirm the Universe Was Hotter in the Past
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Researchers from Keio University have made the most precise measurement yet of the cosmic microwave background radiation's temperature from seven billion years ago, finding it was approximately 5.13 K, roughly twice today's temperature of 2.7 K. By analysi...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:40 +0000
3I/ATLAS Brightens Dramatically as it Swings Past the Sun
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has undergone dramatic brightening as it approached its closest point to the Sun. Researchers have been using solar monitoring satellites to track it during a period when Earth based observations were impossible due to the comet...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:32 +0000
Space Clouds Are Chemical Factories Making the Building Blocks of Life
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Scientists at MIT have discovered over 100 different molecules in a stellar nursery called the Taurus Molecular Cloud-1, making it the most chemically diverse interstellar cloud ever observed. Using over 1,400 hours of telescope time, the team found mostly...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:35 +0000