How Solar Wind Breaks Through Earth’s Magnetic Field
A new study uses data from the four European Space Agency satellites in the Cluster mission to reveal how solar wind breaks through the Earth’s…
A new study uses data from the four European Space Agency satellites in the Cluster mission to reveal how solar wind breaks through the Earth’s…
MIT researchers show the inner workings of a lithium-ion battery, revealing how a random solid solution affects the movement of ions through battery material. New…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics follows up on Kepler’s discoveries, revealing that exoplanets can be divided into three groups: terrestrials,…
New research presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society reveals that harsh space weather may strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting…
This newly released Hubble image shows type II Seyfert galaxy NGC 3081, which is located over 86 million light-years from Earth. Taking center stage in…
Physicists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a simple method for building and testing an invisibility cloak for diffusive light-scattering media. Real invisibility…
The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) has been installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, providing astronomers with impressive views of dust discs around nearby…
A new study from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics reveals the turbulent nature of black holes, showing that gravitational fields around black holes might…
By using refined techniques to compare the measurements of oxygen isotopes in lunar samples with those from Earth, a team of astronomers has provided new…
This new image reveals a violent, complex scene of colliding galaxy clusters more than 5 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky…
Physicists have discovered new “quantum critical points” in a class of iron superconductors known as “oxypnictides,” furthering their understanding of quantum criticality. Quantum criticality, the…
A team of astronomers has discovered the first Thorne-Żytkow object, a hybrid star formed by the interaction of a red supergiant and a neutron star…
New research from the Berkeley Lab systematically measures the strength of magnetic fields near black holes for the first time, revealing that the measured magnetic…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed by their star, providing a glimpse into the future…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers examined a rare example of Type Ia explosion in which a dead star “fed” off an aging…
A team of astronomers has used Fermi data to reveal how blazars are distributed throughout the universe and to show the distinctive properties that define…
This new Hubble image is one of the most comprehensive pictures ever assembled of the evolving Universe. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled…
Scientists have discovered a stronger 3D material (cadmium arsenide) that has the same electronic properties as 2-D graphene. Scientists have discovered a material that has…