Matter Without Antimatter? Closing In on Elusive Particles.
Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties. In the quest to prove that matter can be produced without antimatter, the GERDA experiment at the Gran…
Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties. In the quest to prove that matter can be produced without antimatter, the GERDA experiment at the Gran…
For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on the sun’s surface. They have observed but…
Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within months. Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes,…
Research of Cassini data suggests icy rings are as old as the solar system itself. No one knows for certain when Saturn’s iconic rings formed,…
Astronomers using one of the most advanced radio telescopes have discovered a rare molecule in the dust and gas disc around a young star —…
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the largest features ever observed in the center of the Milky Way – a pair of…
UCLA astronomers notice brightest light in 24 years of observations. The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large…
Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions, as researchers use Hubble to capture deepest optical image of first neutron star merger….
Pops of bright blue and green in this image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) show the locations of extremely bright sources of X-ray light…
Every galaxy has a story, and every galaxy has been many others in the past (unlike for humans, this is not purely metaphorical, as galaxies…
A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from us. This is suggested by an international team of…
Study reports on search for an atmosphere around a planet somewhat similar to ours. Astronomers at MIT, Harvard University, and elsewhere have searched a rocky,…
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez,…
Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous endeavors. The revised…
Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one…
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is world-famous – but it might not be the only way to explain how gravity works and how galaxies form….
Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision. Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that…
A new study has revealed how fast some distant, rapidly growing supermassive black holes are spinning. The material around of one these black holes is…