Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington How do you explore the interior of a planet ...

A stellar flare 10 times more powerful than anything seen on our Sun has burst from an ultracool star almost ...

Credit: SHENG Zhenfeng On April 11th, 2019, an international team led by Professor XUE Yongquan from University of Science and ...

Two dense, city-sized stars collided in a galaxy far, far away; the resulting X-rays give UNLV's Bing Zhang and international ...

The trick is spotting the near-Earth objects first, according to NASA researchers presenting at the 2019 APS April meeting in ...

They may be small, but CubeSats are mighty when it comes to affordably obtaining scientific data in spaceCredit: MinXSS Team ...

Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, ...

Supercomputers play pivotal role in Event Horizon Telescope's first-ever black hole imageCredit: Lia Medeiros, Chi-Kwan Chan, Feryal Özel, Dimitrios Psaltis ...

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 ...