Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS/Cindy Starr Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has ...

Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...

Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the universe formCredit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions Astronomers have ...

Before COVID-19 hit US, project was on track to begin its 3D map of the universe this summerCredit: Marilyn Sargent, ...

Credit: Keio University Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of ...

Credit: University of Birmingham Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that promises to yield ...

Credit: Simons Foundation Before there were animals, bacteria or even DNA on Earth, self-replicating molecules were slowly evolving their way ...

The twist marks the spotCredit: ESO/Boccaletti et al. Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) ...

Credit: Image courtesy of NASA To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space ...

Learning how liquid silicates behave at these extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.Credit: Greg ...

Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidatesCredit: Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, Hubble ...

First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that ...

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently ...

Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...

Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...

These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini ...

Renowned physicist joins prestigious institution established in 1863Credit: Dan Komoda/Institute for Advanced Study Rutgers Professor Gregory W. Moore, a renowned ...

Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel are honoured for their defining contributions to cosmological simulationsCredit: IAU The Gruber Cosmology Prize, which ...

Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eyeCredit: ESO/L. Calçada A team of astronomers from the European ...

Current experiments' detectors and data analyses efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals ...