Physicists describe sun’s electric field
Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Galactic gamma ray bursts predicted last year show up right on schedule
Sherlock Holmes story gives clue to successful prediction of bursts from nearby magnetarCredit: Mikhail Denissenya, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Magnetars are ...
Teardrop star reveals hidden supernova doom
International team led by University of Warwick makes rare sighting of a binary star system heading towards supernovaCredit: University of ...
Danish student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes
Credit: credit: interstellar.wiki/CC BY-NC License. In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may ...
SwRI’s Bolton receives NSS Space Pioneer Award
National Space Society recognizes accomplishments in opening the space frontierCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- July 12, 2021 -- ...
LHAASO’s measurement of Crab Nebula brightness yields new UHE gamma-ray standard
Credit: Image by Institute of High Energy Physics The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), one of China's key ...
New radio receiver opens wider window to radio universe
Credit: Osaka Prefecture University/NAOJ Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The ...
Q-CTRL awarded $3.5 million grant from Australian government for space-based quantum sensors
Company to expand the development and manufacture of advanced sensors for climate data monitoring, mining, defense applications and moreCredit: Q-CTRL ...
Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA/Hubble (elliptical galaxy M87), ESA/Hubble & NASA (lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 and the colliding Antennae galaxies), and David ...
Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
A study published in Nature Astronomy concludes that known geochemical processes can't explain the levels of methane measured by the ...
Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth
Researchers use unusual meteorite to gain insight into our solar system's past, presentCredit: Ryan Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis ...
Chasing cosmic particles with radio antennas in Greenland’s ice
Pioneering project listens for neutrinos from outer spaceCredit: Credit: RNO-G, Cosmin Deaconu In Greenland's ice sheet, a set-up unlike any ...
Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe
Credit: @ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise ...
FAU lands $736,000 from NASA to study the coastal carbon budget from space
FAU harbor branch gulf of Mexico project among 10 grants in the nation and the only university in Florida selected ...
The final dance of mixed neutron star-black hole pairs
Credit: © Carl Knox, OzGrav - Swinburne University Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in ...
Black holes swallow neutron stars like ‘Pac Man’
Credit: Image: NASA Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, "like Pac Man", in a ...
Unique exoplanet photobombs CHEOPS study of nearby star system
Credit: © ESA Photobombs - when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera's field of sight during the taking of ...
CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
Credit: ESA The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de ...
A new type of supernova illuminates an old mystery
Credit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory A worldwide team led by scientists at Las Cumbres Observatory has discovered the first ...
The discovery of a new type of supernova illuminates a medieval mystery
A team led by astronomers at UC Santa Barbara have confirmed the existence of an elusive new type of supernovaCredit: ...