Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
Credit: Astrobiology Center An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast, ...
Tag: Astrophysics
New telescope at ESO’s La Silla joins effort to protect Earth from risky asteroids
Credit: I. Saviane/ESO Part of the world-wide effort to scan and identify near-Earth objects, the European Space Agency's Test-Bed Telescope ...
Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) When the James Webb Space Telescope, despite repeated delays, finally launches in ...
Hubble celebrates 31st birthday with giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a ...
Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed ...
ALMA discovers rotating infant galaxy with help of natural cosmic telescope
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a ...
Scientists find CO2-rich liquid water in ancient meteorite
Scientists detect small pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water in a meteorite dating from the early solar systemCredit: Dr. Akira ...
Bubble with titanium trigger titanic explosions
Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/T. Sato et al.; NuSTAR: NASA/NuSTAR Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This ...
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Credit: Credit: ICRAR / Curtin University. Astronomers have discovered a pulsar--a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves ...
On the pulse of pulsars and polar light
Reimagined telescopes may fill the void left by Arecibo's collapseCredit: Robert Schwarz Faced with the tragic loss of the Arecibo ...
Surprise twist suggests stars grow competitively
Credit: Takemura et al. A survey of star formation activity in the Orion Nebula Cluster found similar mass distributions for ...
$50 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
Credit: ICRAR, SKAO The federal government will invest $50 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse ...
Measuring neutron star squeezability
NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station scienceCredit: NASA / Walt Feimer A ...
New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell A pair of orbiting black holes millions of ...
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were ...
Supercomputing partnership to turbocharge Australian research and green innovation
Credit: Curtin-ICRAR Curtin University and DUG Technology Ltd have entered into a decade-long partnership to collaborate in the fields of ...
New agreement signed for the Office for Astronomy Outreach
The International Astronomical Union and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan expand OAO's activitiesCredit: IAU OAO The IAU is delighted to ...
Study warns of ‘oxygen false positives’ in search for signs of life on other planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from ...
Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere
Credit: UNSW Sydney The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral ...
Seeing quadruple
Machine-learning methods lead to discovery of rare "quadruply imaged quasars" that can help solve cosmological puzzlesCredit: The GraL Collaboration With ...
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