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Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has a strikingly familiar shape. In the process, they discovered the object, called TXS 0128+554, experienced two powerful bouts of activity in the last century.
Aug 25th, 2020
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The very heart of our Milky Way harbours a large bar-like structure of stars whose size and rotational speed have been strongly contested in the last years. A new study has found an elegant solution to the discrepancies found in different observational studies.
Aug 25th, 2020
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A mystery surrounding the space around our solar system is unfolding thanks to supernova-signatures found in deep-sea sediments.
Aug 25th, 2020
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An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
Aug 21st, 2020
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At a distance of more than a thousand times the shadow of the black hole, the core of a plasma jet suddenly lit up. How the energy for this jet could get there as if through an invisible chimney was not yet known.
Aug 21st, 2020
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Researchers have inferred continuous gravitational waves from a neutron star and have estimated the stellar microscopic deformation from a distance of about 4500 light-years.
Aug 20th, 2020
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An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way 'like bullets'.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario.
Aug 19th, 2020
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Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfs.
Aug 18th, 2020
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One way to determine whether there is life on another planet is to look for biosignatures in the light that is scattered off its atmosphere. Scientists have developed an original model that interprets the results of that analysis.
Aug 18th, 2020
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For the first time, researchers have found a way to describe conditions deep in the convection zone of 'white dwarf' stars, which are home to some of the densest collections of matter in the Universe.
Aug 17th, 2020
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Scientists have detected a mysterious gamma-ray heartbeat coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The inconspicuous cloud in the constellation Aquila is beating with the rhythm of a neighbouring precessing black hole, indicating a connection between the two objects.
Aug 17th, 2020
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The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will very, very slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero.
Aug 12th, 2020
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The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world?s astronomers. Researchers have found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. When this gas suddenly collapses under its own weight, new stars are able to arise.
Aug 12th, 2020
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Subatomic particles are no-shows in experiments, increasing doubts about their existence.
Aug 11th, 2020
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NASA's TESS has completed its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky during a two-year-long survey. TESS has found 66 new planets, nearly 2,100 candidates, and much more.
Aug 11th, 2020
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Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral galaxies in those images.
Aug 11th, 2020
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An international team of researchers suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres - the largest known object in our asteroid belt - is an ocean world that might have been geologically active in its recent past.
Aug 10th, 2020
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