What a dying star’s ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system
A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Hubble snaps a crowded cluster
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro et al. This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular ...
Soon-to-be world most sensitive gamma ray observatory launches its first set of detectors
LHAASO is expected to decode cosmic-ray originsCredit: Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Science China's ...
NASA announces funding for RIT professor to develop novel diffractive solar sails
Grover Swartzlander earns Phase II award from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails ...
Mystery of the universe’s expansion rate widens with new Hubble data
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and Palomar Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have ...
IAS researchers detect evidence of 6 new binary black hole mergers within LVC data
Credit: Lee Sandberg Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six ...
Hubble measurements suggest disparity in Hubble constant calculations is not a fluke
Credit: NASA, ESA. Acknowledgement: Josh Lake Hubble's measurements of today's expansion rate do not match the rate that was expected ...
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expected
Credit: NASA, ESA, Adam Riess, and Palomar Digitized Sky Survey New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the ...
Dark matter detector observes rarest event ever recorded
Half-life of xenon-124 is one trillion times longer than age of universeCredit: XENON1T TROY, N.Y. -- How do you observe ...
Researchers observe slowest atom decay ever measured
Credit: (Image: Xenon Collaboration) Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori ...
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
Researchers show young stars rapidly destroy Earth-like nitrogen dominated atmospheres The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our ...
Astronomers find quasars are not nailed to the sky
Credit: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science Until recently, quasars were thought to have essentially fixed positions in the sky. While ...
New book traces expeditions to test Einstein’s theory of relativity
University of Arkansas physics professor Daniel Kennefick writes about the 1919 eclipse, which provided the data to confirm the revolutionary ...
Hubble celebrates its 29th birthday with unrivaled view of the Southern Crab Nebula
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA ...