Tag: Astrophysics

New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...

Wormholes can exist -- but don't pack your bags just yet, said Harvard physicist presenting at the 2019 APS April ...

Thanks to a little inspiration from the Disney movie 'Frozen,' researchers discover a new property of supercooled waterCredit: Joshua E. ...

Effort led by West Virginia University researchers seeks to recruit public to advance computational research on gravitational waves emerging from ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al. Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA ...

Credit: Photo Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--In a first-of-its-kind observation, researchers from the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center have ...

UMass Amherst research delegation is in Washington, D.C., for announcementCredit: INAOE/UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Today, in coordinated press conferences ...

National Science Foundation and Event Horizon Telescope contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of ...

Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Apr. 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has ...

The first real image of a black hole, obtained by the international network of EHT telescopes and published on April ...

Press tips for the upcoming 2019 American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver -- a major international meeting featuring advances ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...

Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the ...

The team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound -- a triphenylene molecule -- to ...

Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunitiesCredit: Mobasher lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - NASA has ...

Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together ...

Credit: Tom Bridgman/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too ...

Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by ...

Structure suggested by theorists decades ago Astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to ...

Credit: Kavli IPMU An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its ...