No Significant Evidence That Distant ULIRGs Are Less Involved in Mergers
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and quantitative measures of galaxy distortion, CfA astronomers reveal that there is only a slight 20% decrease in the collision…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and quantitative measures of galaxy distortion, CfA astronomers reveal that there is only a slight 20% decrease in the collision…
Using observations from NuSTAR and XMM-NEWTON, a team of astronomers examined the time-varying spectral shape of highly excited iron atoms in the nucleus of the…
New supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our “local Universe” from the Big Bang to the present day could improve understanding of dark matter. The…
An international team of astronomers discovered three closely orbiting supermassive black holes that could help in the search for gravitational waves. An international team, including…
Using data from HARPS-TERRA, the Planet Finder Spectrograph and the UCLES echelle spectrograph, astronomers have discovered a new potentially habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red-dwarf…
NASA is about to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – a satellite dedicated to the study of global carbon dioxide sources that will help researchers…
The Dark Energy Survey has revealed a rare, ‘superluminous’ supernova that erupted in a galaxy 7.8 billion light years away. The first images taken by…
Using data from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, astronomers have discovered that the solar atmosphere of the sun is larger than previously thought, extending out…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, a new study of the Perseus galaxy cluster has revealed a mysterious X-ray signal. A…
Scientists have used observations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites to create two new types of animations that indicate where…
Using an existing FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis called tofacitinib citrate, a man with alopecia universalis has grown a full head of hair, eyebrows and…
New research published in Nature Physics details strong evidence of the direct decay of the Higgs boson to fermions. If evidence of the Higgs boson…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, Very Long Baseline Array, and other observatories, astronomers have identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. A…
A newly published study reveals evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the…
By chemically exfoliating graphite into graphene flakes and mixing them into a slurry, a team of researchers has developed a simple, scalable method of making…
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, astronomers from Cornell University have discovered mysterious geologic object that has appeared in the second-largest sea on Saturn’s moon…
Using metamaterials, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology developed a mechanical invisibility cloak that hides objects from touch. In the past years, invisibility cloaks…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 2441 and supernova SN1995E. This bright spiral galaxy is known as NGC 2441, located in the…