Grains Captured by NASA’s Stardust Spacecraft Are Likely from Interstellar Space
A newly published study reveals that seven tiny grains of dust captured by NASA’s Stardust Spacecraft probably came from outside our solar system, perhaps created…
A newly published study reveals that seven tiny grains of dust captured by NASA’s Stardust Spacecraft probably came from outside our solar system, perhaps created…
New research from Yale University and the Weizmann Institute shows that early quasars took in a “super boost,” feasting from large reservoirs of gas that…
New research from theoretical physicists at the Perimeter Institute proposes that our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe. The…
An international group of researchers has demonstrated a more accurate method for measuring the mass of galaxies, revealing that the Milky Way has only about…
A newly published study shows that modifying the standard cosmological model in order to include fairly massive neutrinos does not explain all the physical observations…
An international team of scientists present the first detailed analysis of the weak lensing peaks, finding that the abundance of peaks detected in CS82 is…
Newly published research signifies the reinterpretation of cold dark matter, opening up the possibility that it could be regarded as a very cold quantum fluid…
New supercomputer simulations showing the evolution of our “local Universe” from the Big Bang to the present day could improve understanding of dark matter. The…
The Dark Energy Survey has revealed a rare, ‘superluminous’ supernova that erupted in a galaxy 7.8 billion light years away. The first images taken by…
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers make a direct comparison between observations and chemical models for oxygen species in conditions just before star…
Using 140,000 distant quasars, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have made the most precise measurement to date of the expanding Universe. The Baryon…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CfA scientists examined 264,283 galaxies and measured the signature of the acoustic waves left behind. Perhaps the…
By comparing the predictions of state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations with the results of sophisticated statistical analyses of the cosmic background radiation, two independent studies are challenging…
New computer simulations show that the unusually hydrogen-rich apatite crystals observed in many lunar rock samples may not have formed within a water-rich environment, revealing…
Scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the pressure experienced by tiny samples of organic material that may have been ejected from dying stars,…
New theoretical research suggests that quintessence and phantom fields, two of the many theories that try to explain the nature of dark energy, are only…
In a newly published study, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne analyzed the light given off by 580 supernova explosions in the nearby…
Using gamma-ray observations, astronomers discover a record-breaking black widow binary. Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are notorious for their tainted…