Astrophysicist’s 2004 theory confirmed: Why the Sun’s composition varies
Credit: American Astronomical Society (AAS) WASHINGTON -- About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Three elder sisters of the Sun with planets
Elder suns with low-mass companionsCredit: Andrzej Romanski/NCU An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from ...
NAU astronomer receives prestigious 2021 Cottrell Scholar Award
Tyler Robinson recognized for academic leadership, research quality and innovationCredit: Northern Arizona University A Northern Arizona University astronomer who studies ...
Sensing suns
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star ...
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar systemCredit: Bill Saxton / NSF / AUI ...
The GRANTECAN discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universe
The researchers predict that this structure, which is at a distance of 12.5 billion light years from us, will have ...
URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Results have implications for life on MarsCredit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - February 26, 2021 - A team ...
Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter’s asteroids
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech) After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like ...
Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during ...
New study suggests supermassive black holes could form from dark matter
Credit: ESO / L. Calçada A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black ...
Researchers detect cold gas pipelines feeding early, massive galaxies
Credit: Hai Fu, University of Iowa To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo ...
ET phones home!
Hebrew University finds first evidence of delayed radio flares after star is destroyed by black holeCredit: Hebrew University A team ...
Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighbours
Credit: ICRAR, NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the ...
NASA’s Swift helps tie neutrino to star-shredding black hole
Credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to ...
Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web
Credit: Francisco-Shu Kitaura (IAC). The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an ...
Scientists claim that all high-energy cosmic neutrinos are born by quasars
Credit: Felipe Pedreros Scientists of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS), the ...
Life from Earth could temporarily survive on Mars
Study shows sending microbes to Earth's stratosphere, to test their endurance to Martian conditions, can reveal their potential use and ...
Sounding rocket CLASP2 elucidates solar magnetic field
Credit: NAOJ Cooperative operations between a solar observation satellite and a sounding-rocket telescope have measured the magnetic field strength in ...
The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments ...
Life of a pure Martian design
Credit: © Tetyana Milojevic Early Mars is considered as an environment where life could possibly have existed. There was a ...
