A new study has revealed how some plants are so small and pack the same structures as larger species into a tiny space, making them ideal possible crops for the future.

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots resembling pearls on a string, each wide enough to fit the solar system multiple times. Using the Gemini North telescope, an international team co-led by Ilaria Caiazzo, assistant professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), captured the most detailed view yet of Pa 30, revealing striking new features of the remnant associated with a historical supernova witnessed nearly 850 years ago. The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Using observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team led by Shandong University shows that magnetic reconnection in Jupiter's magnetodisk breaks magnetic field lines and deforms the current sheet into a rippling structure that rotates with the planet. The finding reveals a highly structured magnetodisk and offers new insight into how energy and particles are transported in giant-planet magnetospheres.

Scientists discovered a star leisurely snacking on a closely orbiting brown dwarf. This is the first observation of a low-mass object slowly and steadily consuming material from another low-mass object, rather than quickly engulfing it.

Evidence for hypernovae, theorised to be the most powerful explosions in the Universe, has been disputed in two papers by University College London (UCL) researchers.