Roman Space Telescope Will Detect Exoplanets Using Warped Space-Time
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.] The NASA mission…
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.] The NASA mission…
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this…
Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve only just discovered in the last few decades that…
The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained by General Relativity. A massive body can therefore act like…
A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveals a possible collision of two neutron stars earlier in…
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows…
Magnetars are neutron stars endowed with the strongest magnetic fields observed in the Universe, but their origin remains controversial. In a study published in Science…
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of…
IBS Researchers Raising Their Flag in the Axion Dark Matter Field Researchers at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP), within the Institute…
New simulation-based study on sleeping cataclysmic binaries supports contested 35-year-old predictions, shows that observable novae are just “tip of the iceberg.” Almost 35 years ago,…
These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were already present; a new study…
International team uses a novel approach combining gravitational-wave observations, multi-messenger astronomy, and nuclear physics to obtain the best measurement of neutron star size to date….
About eighty-five percent of the matter in the universe is in the form of dark matter, whose nature remains a mystery, and the rest is…
Simulations suggest that two stars came together to form a blue supergiant, which subsequently exploded. A supernova in a nearby galaxy may have originated from…
Boston University astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere that’s shaped somewhere between a croissant and a beach ball. The heliosphere is…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. While disks orbiting the most compact binary…
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. They…
Astronomers used Chandra to perform a test of string theory, a possible “theory of everything” that would tie all of known physics together. One of…