Grant awarded to UC Riverside physicist to explore the dark sector
Proposed work is expected to significantly increase knowledge of dark matterCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The John ...
Tag: Astronomy
Stellar fireworks celebrate birth of giant cluster
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial ...
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanets
Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new ...
FAST detects neutral hydrogen emission from extragalactic galaxies for the first time
Credit: CASSACA The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. ...
First exposed planetary core discovered allows glimpse inside other worlds
The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering ...
Excess neutrinos and missing gamma rays?
Coronae of supermassive black holes may be the hidden sources of mysterious cosmic neutrinos seen on EarthCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The origin ...
To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
Credit: David Champion The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when ...
A cosmic mystery: ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive star
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable ...
First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b
Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique ...
Case for axion origin of dark matter gains traction
New research findings from the IAS, University of Michigan, and UC BerkeleyCredit: Co & Harigaya In a new study of ...
NRL telescope onboard ESA, NASA SOHO discovers 4000th comet
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet ...
Beneath the surface of our galaxy’s water worlds
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Out beyond our solar system, visible only as the smallest dot in space with even the most powerful ...
Rogue’s gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...
LIGO-Virgo finds mystery object in ‘mass gap’
Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black ...
LIGO-Virgo finds mystery astronomical object in ‘mass gap’
Object lies between heaviest known neutron star and lightest known black holeCredit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) An international research collaboration, including ...
Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthouses
For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. In the future, space explorers may receive similar guidance from the ...
Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy? It’s likely, NASA scientists find
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known ...
Hubble provides holistic view of stars gone haywire
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions ...
Australian scientists reveal a lost 8 billion light years of universe evolution
Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed -- Australian scientists work out how to detect them, revealing a ...
NASA’s IBEX charts 11 years of change at boundary to interstellar space
Results show the shifting outer heliosphere in great detailCredit: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Conceptual Imaging Lab Far, far beyond the ...