Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Keith Matzen has been awarded the 2019 ...

Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, ...

ALMA and Rosetta map the journey of phosphorusCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rivilla et al.; ESO/L. Calçada; ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM; Mario Weigand, www.SkyTrip.de Phosphorus, ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/A. Bader (Lancaster University). Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the ...

Researchers with the joint US-Mexico-European HAWC Observatory have identified a host of galactic sources of super-high-energy gamma raysCredit: Los Alamos ...

Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists ...

Nine Galactic sources are the highest-energy gamma -ray sources ever detected, which could suggest the presence of Galactic acceleratorsCredit: The ...

When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of Warwick astronomers have found that ...

Credit: Wolfgang Zober, Washington University in St. Louis. A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the origin of cosmic rays ...

Credit: Steve Kurtz / UC Santa Cruz The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its medals ...

Professor of astronomy honored for research into black hole formation, building worldwide network of telescopesCredit: Kevin Grady (Radcliffe Institute) WASHINGTON, ...

Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass starsCredit: Picture: X-ray: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M. Burkey et al.; Optical: DSS A group ...

Credit: © ESA The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations ...

Credit: University of Tokyo, NAOJ Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and ...

New extreme-precision instrument on track to find and 'weigh' exoplanetsCredit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/NSF/AURA The new NEID instrument, ...

A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain ...

Astronomers detect first stars 'bubbling out' from the cosmic dark agesCredit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA ...

Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic CloudsCredit: ...

Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University ...

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a repeating Fast Radio Burst to a nearby spiral galaxy, challenging theories on the ...