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.
Nov 9th, 2018
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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.
Nov 8th, 2018
Read moreAstronomers find elusive star with origins close to Big Bang
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang.
Nov 6th, 2018
Read moreMost detailed observations of material orbiting close to a black hole
The GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the Milky Way.
Oct 31st, 2018
Read moreArtificial intelligence bot trained to recognize galaxies
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence program used to recognise faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in deep space.
Oct 31st, 2018
Read moreScientists refine the search for dark matter
Researchers have developed a more effective technique in the search for clues about dark matter in the universe. They can now analyse much larger amounts of the data generated at CERN.
Oct 29th, 2018
Read moreStudy provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars
Scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe.
Oct 24th, 2018
Read moreIn 5-10 years, gravitational waves could accurately measure universe's expansion
New LIGO readings could improve disputed measurement quickly.
Oct 23rd, 2018
Read moreWeighing planets and asteroids
A team of scientists from the International Pulsar Timing Array consortium has used pulsar timing data to measure the masses of the dwarf-planet Ceres and other asteroids.
Oct 23rd, 2018
Read moreA scientific theory proposes a new Celestial Mechanics
A new scientific theory points out that we can understand the behavior of bodies subjected to successive accelerations by rotations, by means of field theory.
Oct 23rd, 2018
Read moreSuperflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets
Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets are forming around their stars.
Oct 19th, 2018
Read moreSupermassive black holes and supercomputers
Researchers reveal the story of the oldest stars and galaxies, compiled from 20 years of simulating the early universe.
Oct 17th, 2018
Read moreThe cosmological lithium problem
This problem is one of the still unresolved questions of the current standard description of the Big Bang.
Oct 8th, 2018
Read moreWhen Is a nova not a nova? When a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collide
International research team confirms collision of white dwarf and brown dwarf stars.
Oct 8th, 2018
Read moreJourney to the beginning of time
With the Pristine survey, an international team is looking for and researching the oldest stars in our Universe. The goal is to learn more about the young Universe right after the Big Bang.
Oct 8th, 2018
Read moreX-ray telescope reveals the Milky Way's halo of hot gas is fed by supernovae
Satellite x-ray observations reveal that supernovae feed the gas cloud that surrounds our galaxy.
Oct 5th, 2018
Read moreA new era in the quest for dark matter
In a review that was published this week, physicists argue that the time has come to broaden and diversify the experimental effort, and to incorporate astronomical surveys and gravitational wave observations in the quest for the nature of dark matter.
Oct 4th, 2018
Read moreScientists discover new nursery for superpowered photons
One of the weirdest objects in the Milky Way just got weirder. Scientists have discovered a new source of the highest-energy photons in the cosmos: a strange system known as a microquasar, located in our neck of the galaxy a neighborly 15,000 light years from Earth.
Oct 3rd, 2018
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