Has the hidden matter of the Universe been discovered?
Astrophysicists may have detected, for the first time, this hidden matter through an innovative statistical analysis of 20-year-old data.
Nov 6th, 2020
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Playing detective on a galactic scale: huge new dataset will solve multiple Milky Way mysteries
How do stars destroy lithium? Was a drastic change in the shape of the Milky Way caused by the sudden arrival of millions of stellar stowaways? These are just a couple of the astronomical questions likely to be answered with the largest set of stellar chemical data ever compiled.
Nov 6th, 2020
Read moreSource of mysterious radio waves from space pinpointed
Three independent studies have found the source of a particular fast radio burst (FRB) - unexplained radio waves that reach us from space and last just a fraction of a second - helping to solve the mystery of what causes the strange phenomenon.
Nov 4th, 2020
Read moreMicrobial space travel on a molecular scale
How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year.
Nov 4th, 2020
Read moreGalaxies have gotten hotter as they've gotten older
The universe is some 13 billion years old and is often imagined as just a vast expanse of dark, almost empty space getting colder with time. Yet new research shows that all of its clusters of galaxies are simultaneously getting hotter as they get older.
Nov 3rd, 2020
Read moreThe farthest black hole from a rare family of galaxies
An international team of astronomers has identified the farthest example of a rare class of gamma-ray emitting galaxies. The so-called BL Lacertae object was discovered at cosmic dawn, within the first two billion years of the age of the universe.
Nov 2nd, 2020
Read moreLighting a path to Planet Nine
The search for Planet Nine - a hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system - may come down to pinpointing the faintest orbital trails in an incredibly dark corner of space.
Nov 2nd, 2020
Read moreScientists conduct detailed diagnosis of mystery of famous diagonal ridge pattern in Milky Way
Our solar neighborhood has many asymmetries, such as snail shape and ridge shape. Up to now, our astronomers are still lack of clear and enough information about the famous ridge structure.
Nov 2nd, 2020
Read moreAn Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way (w/video)
Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of the smallest Earth-sized free-floating planet found to date.
Oct 30th, 2020
Read moreMeasuring the expansion of the universe: Researchers focus on velocity
There seems to be a discrepancy between measurement of the expansion of the Universe using radiation in the early Universe and using nearby objects.
Oct 29th, 2020
Read moreAn early dark energy model could solve an expanding cosmological conundrum
New research suggests that an early model of dark energy presents a competing theory to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe that offers all the benefits of current models without the baggage that comes associated with the cosmological constant.
Oct 29th, 2020
Read moreHow star formation is 'quenched' in galaxies
Galaxies die quickly. That is the conclusion of a new study that examines the mechanism that switches galaxies from an active star-forming phase to one of quiescence.
Oct 28th, 2020
Read moreGalaxies in the infant universe were surprisingly mature
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studied 118 distant galaxies.
Oct 27th, 2020
Read moreDeveloping new coating materials could protect equipment in space
Researchers aim to develop new materials that can protect objects from extreme radiation and temperature variations in space - an important step toward enabling long-distance space exploration.
Oct 26th, 2020
Read moreNew study details atmosphere on 'hot Neptune' 260 light years away that 'shouldn't exist'
Astronomers have crunched data from NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of exoplanet dubbed a 'hot Neptune'.
Oct 23rd, 2020
Read moreGalactic archaeology
Computational astrophysics study modeled for the first time faint supernovae of metal-free first stars, yielding carbon-enhanced abundance patterns for star formation.
Oct 22nd, 2020
Read moreAI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'
Scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of starlight caused by viewing through the Earth's atmosphere, which should make it easier to study the possibility of life on distant planets.
Oct 21st, 2020
Read moreEvidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way and was ripped apart by the gravitational forces of the collision. Astrophysicists announced today that the merger produced a series of telltale shell-like formations of stars in the vicinity of the Virgo constellation, the first such 'shell structures' to be found in the Milky Way.
Oct 20th, 2020
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