Cosmic X-rays reveal an indubitable signature of black holes
Credit: Srimanta Banerjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Marat Gilfanov An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event ...
Tag: Astronomy
Ryugu’s rocky past
Different kinds of rocks on Ryugu provide clues to the asteroid's turbulent historyCredit: © 2020 Tatsumi et al. The asteroid ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks out on space, politics, and science outreach
Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest ...
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team ...
How 13 billion years of cosmic evolution has ultimately led to intelligent life
New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted ...
Major NSF grant accelerates development of the Giant Magellan Telescope
One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding ...
Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge
Credit: Lau et al. With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including ...
Modern theory from ancient impacts
Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar systemCredit: © Sano et al. Around 4 billion ...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...
Elements of surprise: neutron stars contribute little, but something’s making gold, research finds
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, ...
Possible marker of life spotted on venus
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL/Caltech "When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus's spectrum, it was a ...
Hints of life on Venus
Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech An international team of astronomers, led ...
New small satellite to rendezvous with binary asteroids
Credit: Lockheed Martin The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture ...
Revealing the secrets of high-energy cosmic particles
P-ONE: Initiative for a new, large-scale Neutrino Observatory in the Pacific OceanCredit: Elisa Resconi / TUM The "IceCube" neutrino observatory ...
Physicists explain mysterious dark matter deficiency in galaxy pair
UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than othersCredit: Samantha Tieu ...
The story of a cosmological experiment
The dark energy surveyCredit: World Scientific How does our universe function? Why is it expanding and why is the expansion ...
The presence of resonating cavities above sunspots has been confirmed
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused ...
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images at SLAC
The camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.Credit: Greg Stewart/Jacqueline ...
Misaligned planet-forming rings around triple young stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Bi et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
New observations show planet-forming disc torn apart by its three central stars
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al. A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars ...
