Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky equipment and a good deal of patience. DwarfLab's book-sized smart telescopes have ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to "wander" and are not located at the galaxy's center. There are plenty of ...

Observations from the JWST indicate that K2-18b, a planet about 2.6 times the radius of Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light-years away, contains gases like dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...

Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow) and its more compact companion (blue). It is about to start mass transferring.

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Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

An orange, striated sphere hangs in space with stars behind it with a line from it drawn to a box that contains a space-filling model of phosphine where phosphorus is orange and hydrogen is white.

Crypto signals are alerts that prompt you to buy or sell cryptocurrency or try a new strategy. Signals can be based on technical or fundamental analysis done by a human analyst or artificial ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago. When ...