At Edge of Solar System, Pressure Runs High – Greater Than Expected
Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields, and particles like ions, cosmic rays, and…
Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields, and particles like ions, cosmic rays, and…
Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth…
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
Food for young twin stars: Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system Stars are born in the midst of large clouds…
Scientists simulate early galaxy formation in a universe of dark matter that is ultralight, or “fuzzy,” rather than cold or warm. Dark matter was likely…
New research by University of Kent astrophysicists reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating…
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Piolneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
New research conducted at the University of Sussex has simulated dark matter in a new way for the first time, disrupting conventional thinking about the…
Is it possible to borrow energy from an empty space? And if yes, do we have to give it back? Energy values smaller than zero…
An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has for the first time seen the aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart by a supermassive…
Astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University have published research indicating that blasts that create gamma-ray…
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life — nucleobases — could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars….
Astronomers have discovered a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet in an unlikely location — orbiting a small red dwarf star. The newly identified gas giant, designated GJ…
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The…
There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have devised a new way for indirectly…
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties. For the first time, astrophysicists…
Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the universe. Moving through cosmic forests…