What Powers the Most Energetic Explosions in the Universe?
The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or…
In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun. With cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the…
The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed…
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery….
Southwest Research Institute built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun. Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the…
What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory takes us…
One black hole is influencing the rate of star formation in multiple galaxies and across vast distances. This is a rare example of “positive feedback”…
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
Columbia researchers suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields….
Researchers using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope have taken a new and significant step toward detecting a signal from the period in cosmic history…
This image of the “Whale Galaxy” (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of…
It is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon molecule, but one that has an extra proton…
Flaking of familiar vortex considered ‘very natural state.’ The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with…
In two separate studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers will observe dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way and…
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror unheeding, without knowledge or lustre…
Caught in the Act: MeerKAT Telescope Spies Stellar Flare Scientists using the MeerKAT radio telescope have discovered a unique and previously-unseen flare of radio emission…
The leftovers from a spectacular supernova that revolutionized our understanding of how stars end their lives have finally been spotted by astronomers at Cardiff University….