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Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony

An expanding cloud of atoms could offer insight into unanswered cosmological questions.

April 19, 2018 Read more

Researchers find new way of exploring the afterglow from the Big Bang

Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. The new results predict the maximum bandwidth of the universe, which is the maximum speed at which any change can occur in the universe.

April 19, 2018 Read more

New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiency

Scientists explored ways to integrate the logistics of space travel by looking at a campaign of lunar missions, spacecraft design, and creating a framework to optimize fuel and other resources.

April 19, 2018 Read more

Hello DARKNESS

Physicists and astronomers team up to commission the most advanced camera in the world.

April 16, 2018 Read more

Can we tell black holes apart?

Astrophysicists answer this question by computing images of feeding non-Einsteinian black holes.

April 16, 2018 Read more

The background hum of space could reveal hidden black holes

Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash into each other. Now scientists have developed a way to listen in on these events.

April 12, 2018 Read more

A cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of aliens

A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does not detect if someone crosses the stage disguised as a gorilla. According to researchers, something similar could be happening to us when we try to discover intelligent non-earthly signals, which perhaps manifest themselves in dimensions that escape our perception, such as the unknown dark matter and energy.

April 10, 2018 Read more

Tiny distortions in universe's oldest light reveal strands in cosmic web

Researchers map the network of filaments connecting the universe's visible matter.

April 10, 2018 Read more

The largest catalog ever published of very high energy gamma ray sources in the galaxy

The HESS international collaboration has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations of pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, as well as microquasars, never before detected in gamma rays.

April 9, 2018 Read more

Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the Universe

Astrophysicists have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the centre of tiny dwarf galaxies.

April 6, 2018 Read more

Gamma-ray burst comparison reveals a new standard candle for astronomers

Blasts of gamma rays could give astronomers a way to measure the Universe?s first billion years.

April 6, 2018 Read more

Dead star circled by light

MUSE data points to isolated neutron star beyond our galaxy.

April 5, 2018 Read more

Anticipating the dangers of space

Researchers use supercomputers to estimate radiation risks for low Earth orbits.

April 3, 2018 Read more

Researchers uncover the farthest star ever seen

More than halfway across the universe, researchers have spotted an enormous blue star, nicknamed Icarus. It is the farthest individual star ever seen.

April 2, 2018 Read more

First age-map of the heart of the Milky Way

The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy.

April 2, 2018 Read more

Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

By identifying the chemical makeup of the gas, known as the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream, the researchers identified one branch as coming from the Small Magellanic Cloud.

March 23, 2018 Read more

Hubble solves cosmic 'whodunit' with interstellar forensics

On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and only the Hubble Space Telescope can see who's winning.

March 22, 2018 Read more

TRAPPIST-1 planets provide clues to the nature of habitable worlds

New software, called ExoPlex, allowed researchers to combine all of the available information about the TRAPPIST-1 system, including the chemical makeup of the star, rather than being limited to just the mass and radius of individual planets.

March 20, 2018 Read more