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Calibrating cosmic mile markers

Calibrations improve our understanding of how fast the universe is expanding and the role dark energy may play in driving this process.

December 11, 2018 Read more

Unknown treasure trove of planets found hiding in dust

'Super-Earths' and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international team of astronomers suggests.

December 6, 2018 Read more

Catalog of cosmic cataclysms helps establish gravitational wave astronomy

The records of cataclysmic cosmic events, including four black hole observations disclosed for the first time, have been collected into a catalog. Production of the catalog suggests that gravitational wave astronomy will indeed offer astronomers a new way to view the secrets of the universe.

December 6, 2018 Read more

Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos

Scientists may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass'.

December 5, 2018 Read more

Combination of space-based and ground-based telescopes reveals more than 100 exoplanets

An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the Universe.

December 3, 2018 Read more

Scientists uncover new properties of black holes

New gravitational waves detections shed light on entire population of black holes.

December 3, 2018 Read more

Black hole 'donuts' are actually 'fountains'

Based on computer simulations and new observations, researchers have found that the rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes. Instead, gas expelled from the center interacts with infalling gas to create a dynamic circulation pattern, similar to a water fountain in a city park.

November 30, 2018 Read more

Astronomers discover giant relic of disrupted 'tadpole' galaxy

A team of astronomers have identified a disrupted galaxy resembling a giant tadpole, complete with an elliptical head and a long, straight tail, about 300 million light years away from Earth.

November 19, 2018 Read more

Our stellar neighbourhood expands

Astronomers have found a planet in orbit of Barnard's star. Barnard's star is a so-called red dwarf and after the Alpha-Centauri triple stellar system the second closest star to the Sun.

November 15, 2018 Read more

Auroras unlock the physics of energetic processes in space

A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space.

November 15, 2018 Read more

New finding of particle physics may help to explain the absence of antimatter

With the help of computer simulations, particle physics researchers may be able to explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe. The simulations offer a new way of examining conditions after the Big Bang, and could provide answers to some fundamental questions in particle physics.

November 13, 2018 Read more

Radio telescope measures dust grains that could seed new planets

Radio observations map the sizes of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a star.

November 9, 2018 Read more

Spacetime - a creation of well-known actors?

Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way in the vicinity of the Planck scale, i.e. at distances close to one trillionth of a trillionth of a metre. However, careful considerations undermine the unambiguity of this prediction.

November 8, 2018 Read more