Twin Supernovae Open Up New Possibilities for Precision Cosmology
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
Astronomy
Massive Flare Seen on Closest Star to the Solar System: What It Means for Chances of Alien Neighbors
The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare…
Black Hole Pairs Found in Distant Merging Galaxies Provide Crucial Insight Into the Early Universe
Gemini North spectroscopically resolves a pair of quasars that are closer together than any yet discovered in the distant Universe. Astronomers have found two close…
AI “Magic” Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics
Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with…
NASA Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages
The early-stage NASA concept could see robots hang wire mesh in a crater on the Moon’s far side, creating a radio telescope to help probe…
Astronomers See First Hint of Silhouette of Star Spaghettified by Black Hole
For decades astronomers have been spotting bursts of electromagnetic radiation coming from black holes. They assumed those are the result of stars being torn apart,…
Using 3D Printing in Search for Black Holes
An X-ray telescope designed to search for supermassive black holes could be built using a novel 3D-printing technique called plasma metal deposition. The ESA space…
Mysterious Hydrogen-Free Supernova Sheds Light on Massive Stars’ Violent Death Throes
A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what’s possible at the deaths of our Universe’s most massive stars. The team describes the…
Gravitational-Wave Scientists Brilliant New Method to Refine the Hubble Constant – The Expansion and Age of the Universe
A team of international scientists, led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery…
Solution Proposed to Mystery of Incredibly Strong White Dwarf Magnetic Fields
University of Warwick astronomer co-authors new study in Nature Astronomy that proposes a solution to long-running question of how white dwarf stars generate magnetic fields…
Radio Astronomers Discover 8 New Millisecond Pulsars With MeerKAT Telescope
A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters,” using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope….
Dark Energy Experiment 16 Years in the Making Could Illuminate Origin, Evolution, Fate of Universe
The universe we see is only the very tip of the vast cosmic iceberg. The hundreds of billions of galaxies it contains, each of them…
Cracking the Mysteries of Venus: New Information on Planet’s Spin and Internal Structure
15 years of radar measurements provide new information on planet’s spin, internal structure. Venus is an enigma. It’s the planet next door and yet reveals…
Fragments of Titanium Found Blasting Out of a Famous Supernova
Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step…
Asteroid That Hit Botswana in 2018 Likely Originated From Vesta
An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018….
Our Giant Universe: Hubble Spots Massive Galaxy Cluster With a Wealth of Exciting Possibilities
This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that offers a wealth of exciting possibilities for study. It was observed by Hubble in order…
DALI Experiment: An Astro-Particle Telescope for Dark Matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern…
Violent Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions May Help Settle Dispute Over Universe’s Expansion
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, helping to resolve a…