Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be ...
Tag: Astronomy
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA ...
The measurements of the expansion of the universe don’t add up
The mystery of the Hubble constantCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltetch/ESA-Planck Collaboration/SINC Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of ...
Nearly extreme black holes which attempt to regrow hair become bald again
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The black holes of Einstein's theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, ...
New laser opens up large, underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum
Terahertz frequency laser paves the way for better sensing, imaging and communicationsCredit: Arman Amirzhan, Harvard SEAS The terahertz frequency range ...
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is ...
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environmentCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have long been puzzled ...
Ancient gas cloud reveals universe’s first stars formed quickly
Credit: Illustration is courtesy of the Max Planck Society Washington, DC-- The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of ...
New study suggests ‘Pac-Man-like’ mergers could explain massive, spinning black holes
RIT Associate Professor Richard O'Shaughnessy contributes to study in Physical Review LettersCredit: Scott C. Noble Scientists have reported detecting gravitational ...
Clemson scientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding
Clemson team collaborates to quantify one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmosCredit: Jim Melvin / College of Science ...
Warning system for aviation exposure to solar energetic particles (WASAVIES)
Provide ICAO a mandatory information for cosmic ray radiation protection management of aircrewsCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, ...
Hubble captures a dozen galaxy doppelgangers
Credit: NASA, ESA and E. Rivera-Thorsen (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics Oslo, Norway) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo reveals a ...
SwRI demonstrates balloon-based solar observatory
Low-cost option breaks down barriers to solar researchCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 7, 2019 -- Southwest Research ...
UCLouvain researcher makes the heart of Mars speak
Credit: UCLouvain For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of ...