Antimatter: Scientists Trap Elusive Material by Blasting It With Lasers
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with…
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with…
Scientists refine the search for enigmatic continuous gravitational waves. The hunt for the never before heard “hum” of gravitational waves caused by mysterious neutron stars…
A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what’s left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star. That…
Scientists have coordinated observations of many of the world’s most powerful telescopes of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. In April 2019, the…
A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often surrounded by an…
Observation challenges established theory of gamma-ray bursts in the universe. Scientists have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe: A…
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions. Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a…
A team at Stony Brook University used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model X-ray burst flames spreading across the surface of dense neutron stars. At the…
How Are Solar Systems Born? Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of…
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma — the first matter ever to be present — during…
Astronomer Reveals Never-Before-Seen Detail of the Center of Our Galaxy New image made using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory hints at previously unknown interstellar energy source…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit). This,…
An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the…
Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for the first time. This work was based…
What does quark-gluon plasma — the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang — have in common with tap…