Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black ...

Object lies between heaviest known neutron star and lightest known black holeCredit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) An international research collaboration, including ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has demonstrated that it is possible to build an ultra-sensitive sensor based on a new ...

For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. In the future, space explorers may receive similar guidance from the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known ...

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT) The NASA/Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two ...

Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed -- Australian scientists work out how to detect them, revealing a ...

Credit: © KU Leuven - Wenzhi Ruan Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the ...

Results show the shifting outer heliosphere in great detailCredit: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Conceptual Imaging Lab Far, far beyond the ...

Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...

There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according ...

Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...

Credit: UZH The fourth parabolic flight organized by the UZH Space Hub takes off today from Dübendorf airfield. A reorganization ...

Credit: STEREO/EUVI Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz ...

200 years of sunspot observations used by University of Warwick researchers to create 'sun clock'Credit: University of Warwick Extreme space ...

Scientists remain perplexed by the activity, with some 40 papers so far giving wildly different answersCredit: Image courtesy Ian Shoemaker. ...

Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...

Credit: Denis Sergeev/ University of Exeter Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including ...