MAVEN maps electric currents around mars that are fundamental to atmospheric loss
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 ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised ...
Astronomers see ‘cosmic ring of fire,’ 11 billion years ago
Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in the universe formCredit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions Astronomers have ...
DESI team prepares for telescope instrument’s restart after unexpected shutdown
Before COVID-19 hit US, project was on track to begin its 3D map of the universe this summerCredit: Marilyn Sargent, ...
ALMA spots twinkling heart of milky way
Credit: Keio University Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of ...
New gravitational-wave model can bring neutron stars into even sharper focus
Credit: University of Birmingham Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that promises to yield ...
How cosmic rays may have shaped life
Credit: Simons Foundation Before there were animals, bacteria or even DNA on Earth, self-replicating molecules were slowly evolving their way ...
ESO telescope sees signs of planet birth
The twist marks the spotCredit: ESO/Boccaletti et al. Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) ...
Galactic cosmic rays now available for study on Earth, thanks to NASA
Credit: Image courtesy of NASA To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space ...
Probing materials at deep-Earth conditions to decipher Earth’s evolutionary tale
Learning how liquid silicates behave at these extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.Credit: Greg ...
Seeing the universe through new lenses
Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidatesCredit: Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, Hubble ...
TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits not misaligned
First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that ...
New comet discovered by ESA and NASA solar observatory
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO In late May and early June, Earthlings may be able to glimpse Comet SWAN. The comet is currently ...
Where neutrinos come from
Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...
Hayabusa2 reveals more secrets from Ryugu
Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and ...
Telescopes and spacecraft join forces to probe deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere
These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini ...
Rutgers’ Greg Moore elected to National Academy of Sciences
Renowned physicist joins prestigious institution established in 1863Credit: Dan Komoda/Institute for Advanced Study Rutgers Professor Gregory W. Moore, a renowned ...
Recipients of 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced
Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel are honoured for their defining contributions to cosmological simulationsCredit: IAU The Gruber Cosmology Prize, which ...
ESO instrument finds closest black hole to Earth
Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eyeCredit: ESO/L. Calçada A team of astronomers from the European ...
Study: could dark matter be hiding in existing data?
Current experiments' detectors and data analyses efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals ...