Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Michaela Pink Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting ...

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Institutions ranging from NASA to the Korean Physical Society have recently bestowed national and ...

Researchers of the University of Bonn identify extremely rare fusion of two white dwarfsCredit: (c) Vasilii Gvaramadse/Moscow University Astronomers at ...

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal ...

Neutron star mergers to be topic of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation events Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at ...

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their ...

Credit: Space Science Council of RAS Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by ...

Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar historyCredit: © 2019 Rohan Mehra - Division for Strategic Public ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to ...

Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the ...

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN, Dual Color Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be ...

Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Ivor Silk are honoured for their seminal work on cosmological structure formation and dark matterCredit: Gruber ...

Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe's earliest galaxies were ...

New method developed by Berkeley Lab researchers cuts through galaxies' messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energyCredit: ...

Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick ...

The impact of our Galaxy with a satellite galaxy could be the cause of the creation of more than 50% ...

Although hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe, it is almost never seen in Type Ia supernova explosions, except ...

Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin's group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft' UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, ...

The World Economic Forum has announced the introduction of a Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) system to help tackle the problem ...