Solving a 90 Year-Old Space Mystery: Why Comets’ Heads Can Be Green, but Never Their Tails
The team solved this mystery with the help of a vacuum chamber, a lot of lasers, and one powerful cosmic reaction. Every so often, the…
The team solved this mystery with the help of a vacuum chamber, a lot of lasers, and one powerful cosmic reaction. Every so often, the…
An international team of astronomers led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC) has revealed a…
When we talk about the enormity of the cosmos, it’s easy to toss out big numbers – but far more difficult to wrap our minds…
An international research team has performed a new measurement of an important astrophysical reaction, 22Mg(a, p)25Al, providing essential experimental data for understanding the light curve…
Recently, an international research team successfully updated the 7Li(d,n)24He reaction rate based on the latest experimental data, which removes the significant ambiguity in the cosmological…
Before the MIRI instrument – one of four scientific instruments aboard the observatory – can operate, it has to be cooled down to almost the…
New planetary candidates found by sifting through archival Kepler Telescope data. A fully automated exoplanet-detection system sifted through years of data from NASA’s retired Kepler…
The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is due for launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana….
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists. Sometimes a question is so big that it takes a continent to answer…
For a mission yet to have entered its main science phase, Solar Orbiter has already generated a lot of great science. Today sees the publication…
Did black holes form immediately after the Big Bang? How did supermassive black holes form? What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how…
The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects. In June of 2018,…
New study finds a world about 146 light years away that’s not quite a planet, not quite a brown dwarf. Citizen scientists have discovered a…
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object — either a lightweight…
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive…
The world’s first 3D simulation simultaneously considering dust motion and growth in a disk around a young star has shown that large dust from the…
The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is designed to answer fundamental questions about the Universe. With 100 times more sensitivity than the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester have helped conduct a 16-year-long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity….