VENUS Apparatus: Device Mimics Life’s First Steps in Outer Space
Called VENUS, the device will give scientists an unprecedented ability to study how molecules form in the icy clouds of space. A device developed by…
Astrophysics
Astronomers May Have Spotted a Nanoflare on the Sun – First Predicted 48 Years Ago to Solve a Major Mystery
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible temperatures. A new study published in Nature Astronomy marks…
Artificial Intelligence Classifies Real Supernova Explosions With Unprecedented Accuracy
A new machine learning algorithm trained only with real data has classified over 2,300 supernovae with over 80% accuracy. Artificial intelligence is classifying real supernova…
HETDEX Dark Energy Experiment Begins Full Operations
Three years after its initial test observations, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is now training its full suite of instrumentation to reveal the…
Black Holes Discharge the Energy in Their Powerful Plasma Jets Much Farther Away Than Thought
New study determines that black holes discharge the energy in their plasma jets much farther away from the black hole’s center than previously thought, resolving…
A Blazar in the Early Universe: Details Revealed in Galaxy’s Jet 12.8 Billion Light-Years From Earth
The supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) has revealed previously unseen details in a jet of material ejected…
Astronomers Discover Pair of Lonely Exotic Planet-Like Objects Born Like Stars
An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each…
Supercomputer Simulations Have Found Why Ions Exist at Higher Temperatures Than Electrons in Space Plasma
New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer in Japan have found that the reason ions exist at higher temperatures than electrons…
Improving Our Understanding of the Early Universe With the Most-Distant Astrophysical Object Yet Discovered
New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Gregory Walth improves our understanding of the most-distant known astrophysical object — GN-z11, a galaxy…
“Ghostly” Particles Detected That Prove the Secondary Fusion Process That Powers Our Sun
The Borexino experiment research team has succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the sun’s second fusion process, the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle (CNO cycle) for the…
New Calculation of the Hubble Constant – Rate of Expansion of the Universe – Via Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Study finds neutron stars are typically about 11.75 kilometers in radius, and provides a novel calculation of the Hubble constant. A combination of astrophysical measurements…
Next Target Asteroid for Hayabusa2 Photographed by Subaru Telescope
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data…
Unexpected Discovery of Star Cluster With Extreme Composition on Outskirts of the Nearby Andromeda Galaxy
Low-Metallicity Globular Star Cluster Challenges Formation Models On the outskirts of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, researchers have unexpectedly discovered a globular cluster (GC) — a…
New, More Precise Atomic Clock Could Help Detect Dark Matter and Study Gravity’s Effect on Time
The new atomic clock design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity’s effect on time. Atomic clocks are the…
What if Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist? Unique Prediction of “Modified Gravity” Challenges Dark Matter Hypothesis
Team of international collaborators detect ‘external field effect,’ a prediction unique to MOND, rival dark matter hypothesis. An international group of scientists, including Case Western…
Astronomers Locate the Oldest and Most Distant Galaxy in the Universe – Defines the Very Boundary of the Observable Universe
Chemical signatures give away the distance to the most distant galaxy. A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to…
Astronomers Detect Possible Radio Emission From Exoplanet for the First Time
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that…
A Hint of New Physics Observed in Polarized Radiation From the Early Universe
Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a…