Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is ...

Credit: Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the ...

Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand these mysterious phenomenaCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel, courtesy ...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers analysed the signal from a fast radio burst to ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our ...

Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab (used with permission by Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is co-managed by Robert Nemiroff ...

Second interstellar object has been spotted and named just two years after the firstCredit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA On 30 August 2019 ...

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office There are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics ...

Credit: NASA/Goddard/SORCE For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on ...

Zwicky Transient Facility observations reveal surprising transformations from sleepy LINER galaxies to blazing quasars within monthsCredit: (Left; infrared & visible ...

National Science Foundation backs Rice-led effort to create science-aware artificial intelligenceCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Sept. 18, 2019) -- ...

Research of Cassini data suggests icy rings are as old as the solar system itselfCredit: NASA SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. ...

Credit: Arizona State University Deep within the subterranean confines of Building C--the latest addition to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona ...

Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the ...

Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the ...

Karlsruhe tritium neutrino experiment KATRIN limits neutrino masses to less than 1 eVCredit: Joachim Wolf, KIT Neutrinos and their small ...

Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough ...

An international team headed by UNIGE has discovered that the properties of molecular clouds, and the number of stars they ...

Credit: ESO/VMC Survey The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163 000 ...

Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in ...