Extremely Powerful Cosmic “Dark Matter Detector” Probed by Astrophysicist
A University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely powerful celestial object, for what may be the…
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Scientists Precisely Measure Total Amount of Matter & Dark Energy in the Entire Universe
UC Riverside-led team’s technique relied on determining the mass of galaxy clusters. A top goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of…
Close Binary Trans-Neptunian Object Discovered With Help From Citizen Scientists
Scientists utilized citizen science network to observe the object. A new study authored by Southwest Research Institute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Is Ready for Space Lasers
Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future. When…
ESA’s Φ-Week: Digital Twin Earth, Quantum Computing and AI Take Center Stage
ESA’s 2020 Φ-week event kicked off this morning with a series of stimulating speeches on Digital Twin Earth, updates on Φ-sat-1, which was successfully launched…
Astrophysicists Detect Difference Between How Dark Matter Behaves in Theory and How It Appears to Act in Reality
The universe’s funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality. Dark matter…
Astronomers Find Extreme Galaxy With Intense Ultraviolet Luminosity Comparable to a Quasar
It was found using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands), and…
This Stunning Spiral Galaxy Is Mesmerizing – Image Took 9 Hours Observation Time on Hubble Space Telescope
This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus (The Wolf). Looking this good…
One of the Most Extreme Planets in the Universe Analyzed With CHEOPS Space Telescope
Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is…
Physicists Quiet the Quantum Whisper to Improve Gravitational Wave Detector Sensitivity
By quieting the quantum whisper, we can now listen to the more subtle notes of the cosmic symphony. Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new…
Astrophysicists Prove That Water Ice Is Trapped in Star Dust
Astrophysicists at the University of Jena (Germany) prove that dust particles in space are mixed with ice. The matter between the stars in a galaxy…
New Technology Is a “Science Multiplier” for Astronomy
Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released on September 21, 2020, in the Journal of Astronomical…
Insight-HXMT Discovers Closest High-Speed Relativistic Jet to Black Hole
Insight-HXMT, China’s first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) above 200 kiloelectron volts (keV) in a black hole binary, making…
NASA Dragonfly Launch Delayed – Revolutionary Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan
Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan to advance our search for the building blocks of life. While Dragonfly…
Understanding Our Place in the Universe: Math Professor Verifies Centuries-Old Conjecture About Formation of the Solar System
Using a limited set of mathematical equations, Worcester Polytechnic Institute mathematical sciences professor Mayer Humi said he has confirmed a 224-year-old math conjecture about the…
From the Big Bang to the Present: Gravity Is Why the Universe Is So Uniform
The temporal evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, is described by Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. However, there are…
Experts Explain: If There Is Life on Venus, How Could It Have Gotten There?
Considering what we know about the key ingredients for life’s formation on Earth, here are three explanations for how this process may have occurred on…
Event Horizon Telescope Reveals Turbulent Black Hole Evolution: Wobbling Shadow of the M87 Black Hole
Analysis of the event horizon telescope observations from 2009-2017 reveals turbulent evolution of the M87 black hole image. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…