Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser With the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered and ...

Grant will support combined physics and computer science effort to find dark matterCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 5, ...

A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com ...

Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and ...

Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger On Earth, plate tectonics is not only responsible for ...

Credit: Photo: Mia Halleröd Palmgren, Collage: Yen Strandqvist /Chalmers Tiny photonic devices could be used to find new exoplanets, monitor ...

Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, ...

Credit: American Astronomical Society (AAS) WASHINGTON -- About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval ...

Elder suns with low-mass companionsCredit: Andrzej Romanski/NCU An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from ...

Tyler Robinson recognized for academic leadership, research quality and innovationCredit: Northern Arizona University A Northern Arizona University astronomer who studies ...

Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion powerCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021) ...

Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star ...

Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar systemCredit: Bill Saxton / NSF / AUI ...

The researchers predict that this structure, which is at a distance of 12.5 billion light years from us, will have ...

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech) After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during ...

Credit: ESO / L. Calçada A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black ...

Credit: Hai Fu, University of Iowa To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo ...

An international team of scientists proposes a new heavy particle with properties similar to those of the Higgs bosonCredit: university ...

Hebrew University finds first evidence of delayed radio flares after star is destroyed by black holeCredit: Hebrew University A team ...