SLAC Scientists Create Artificial Cosmic-Ray Air Showers
Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are set to test an experiment that mimics what happens when incredibly energetic particles hit our atmosphere. In…
Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are set to test an experiment that mimics what happens when incredibly energetic particles hit our atmosphere. In…
Astronomers from the universities of Nottingham and Manchester have accurately measured the mass of neutrinos for the first time. Scientists have solved a major problem…
A newly published study details how massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a…
Using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, astrophysicists ran simulations charting the forces of the universe in its first hundreds of millions of years…
Using the Keck I Telescope, a team of astronomers viewed part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Astronomers…
Using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home, international volunteers discover four cosmic lighthouses in data from NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The combination of globally distributed…
In a newly published study, researchers from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detail the discovery of the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic accelerators….
Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy and eliminate the possibility that our planet, solar system and galaxy are at the center of the…
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…
Using Suzaku’s X-ray telescopes to make 84 observations of the Perseus Cluster, researchers discovered that most of the universe’s heavy elements, including the iron central…
UC San Diego cosmochemists demonstrated that a chemical reaction, governed by known physical principles, can generate silicate dust with oxygen anomalies that match those found…
A newly published study details how astronomers detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming…
Using data from the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist…
A newly published study details how astronomers used both data from telescopes and newly developed computer modeling to solve a 20-year debate over how dark…
A team of physicists has developed a theoretical model to help explain some of the deviations between previous measurements of the expansion rate of the…
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute and the Perimeter Institute in Canada have developed a new approach to the unification of the general theory of…
New research from physicists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf looks at how magnetic fields can cause turbulences within “dead zones,” resulting in the formation of black holes…
Using cosmic microwave background radiation data from Planck and WMAP9, researchers look back through time at the first 100 years to 300,000 years after the…