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Standing room only crowd engages in student's warp drive theory speech

An overview of the state of the art of warp drive theory and the feasibility of a future working system.

September 16, 2019 Read more

Scientists developing single photon detector to help search for habitable exoplanets

The extremely sensitive detector would allow scientists to see the faintest observable objects in space, such as Earth-like planets around other stars.

September 13, 2019 Read more

Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal, and researchers don't know why.

September 11, 2019 Read more

Astronomers find water vapor on habitable-zone exoplanet for first time

With data from the Hubble Space Telescope, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth with habitable temperatures.

September 11, 2019 Read more

Giant balloon-like structures discovered at center of Milky Way

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the largest structures ever observed in the Milky Way. A newly spotted pair of radio-emitting bubbles reach hundreds of light-years tall, dwarfing all other structures in the central region of the galaxy.

September 11, 2019 Read more

Scientists detect the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time

Physicists have 'heard' the ringing of an infant black hole for the first time, and found that the pattern of this ringing does, in fact, predict the black hole's mass and spin - more evidence that Einstein was right all along.

September 11, 2019 Read more

Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions

Researchers use Hubble to capture deepest optical image of first neutron star merger.

September 9, 2019 Read more

And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universe

Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang 'dark age'.

September 9, 2019 Read more

Chemical element potassium detected in an exoplanet atmosphere

A team of astronomers detected the chemical element potassium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, for the first time with overwhelming significance and applying high-resolution spectroscopy.

September 4, 2019 Read more

Supernova remnants used to probe how star explosion took shape

The evolution of an exploding star begins more haphazardly than previously thought.

August 30, 2019 Read more

The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

New study suggests that the nightsides of hot Jupiters share clouds made of minerals.

August 28, 2019 Read more

'Green peas' provide clues to the early days of the universe

It is probable that primordial galaxies triggered the period in the history of the universe known as 'cosmic reionisation'. Astronomers have succeeded in demonstrating this by studying green pea galaxies.

August 28, 2019 Read more

Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen

HADES experiment simulates colliding and merging neutron stars.

August 22, 2019 Read more

Black hole holograms

Researchers propose a new holographic method to simulate black holes with a tabletop experiment. This work may be crucial for solving one of the biggest mysteries in science -- reconciling quantum mechanics and general relativity.

August 20, 2019 Read more

A second planet in the Beta Pictoris system

A team of astronomers has discovered a second giant planet in orbit around Beta Pictoris, a star that is relatively young (23 million years old) and close (63.4 light years), and surrounded by a disk of dust.

August 19, 2019 Read more

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our Sun.

August 14, 2019 Read more

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their radiation could trigger a protective glow from life on exoplanets called biofluorescence.

August 14, 2019 Read more

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

In a new study, researchers report on the most detailed simulation ever of a large patch of the intergalactic medium (IGM). For the first time, they were able to see how cold, dense gas clouds in the IGM organize themselves and react within much larger 'sheets' or 'pancakes' of matter in the vastness of space.

August 13, 2019 Read more