Complex Carbon-Based Molecules Found in Space – “A Major Leap Forward in Astrochemistry”
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation. Much of the carbon in space is believed to exist in the form…
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation. Much of the carbon in space is believed to exist in the form…
Particle physicist Lindley Winslow seeks the universe’s smallest particles for answers to its biggest questions. When she entered the field of particle physics in the…
Evolution of auroral substorms revealed by physicists at University of Warwick using the same methods that link people through social media ‘If you like this…
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles from a supermassive black hole in the early Universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory….
Researchers using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will map and model the core of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. As technology has improved over the…
‘Eta Carinae’ is an extraordinary star that has fascinated mankind for decades. It’s surrounded by an expanding ‘Homunculus nebula’, shaped like an hourglass. This nebula…
Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say. Minerals delivered to Earth…
Study Finds That Cavities Sculpted by Stellar Outflows Did Not Expand Over Time Stars aren’t shy about announcing their births. As they are born from…
Scientists of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence analyze data from the gravitational wave observatory NANOGrav. The NANOGrav Collaboration recently captured the first signs of very…
Layers of ice and rock obviate the need for “habitable zone” and shield life against threats. SwRI researcher theorizes worlds with underground oceans may be…
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mystery. Researchers have channeled the universe’s earliest light – a relic of the universe’s…
Radio telescopes are the world’s most sensitive radio receivers, capable of finding extremely faint wisps of radio emission coming from objects at the farthest reaches…
Weighing in at roughly 21 solar masses, the black hole in the X-ray binary system Cygnus X-1 is so massive that it challenges current stellar…
Sometime in the far distant future, about 4 billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as illustrated…
On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple…
Radio observations of a cold, dense cloud of molecular gas reveal more than a dozen unexpected molecules. Scientists have discovered a vast, previously unknown reservoir…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of astronomers have directly measured winds…
Discrepancies in the Hubble constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, have vexed astronomers for years. Values predicted from observations of the early…