Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetime
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
A flight to weightlessness from Zurich-Dübendorf
Credit: UZH The fourth parabolic flight organized by the UZH Space Hub takes off today from Dübendorf airfield. A reorganization ...
A method has been developed to study the ‘traces’ of coronal mass ejections at the Sun.
Credit: STEREO/EUVI Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz ...
New ‘sun clock’ quantifies extreme space weather switch on/off
200 years of sunspot observations used by University of Warwick researchers to create 'sun clock'Credit: University of Warwick Extreme space ...
Virginia Tech research provides new explanation for neutrino anomalies in Antarctica
Scientists remain perplexed by the activity, with some 40 papers so far giving wildly different answersCredit: Image courtesy Ian Shoemaker. ...
Tower extension test a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...
Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant planets
Credit: Denis Sergeev/ University of Exeter Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including ...
First global map of rockfalls on the Moon
Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, ...
Cosmic quasars embrace 1970s fashion trend
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars -- ...
Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun’s corona
Credit: Solar Wind Sherpas Researchers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying ...
Mona Ghassemi receives award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Credit: Virginia Tech United States government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA, all have ...
Hubble makes surprising find in the early universe
New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early ...
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures
Credit: Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution ...
Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, ...
First optical measurements of Milky Way’s Fermi Bubbles probe their origin
Credit: Images by Dhanesh Krishnarao and NASA MADISON -Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time ...
Black holes? They are like a hologram
According to new research, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional ...
Scientists detect crab nebula using innovative gamma-ray telescope
First-of-its-kind telescope promises to shed new light on the physics of high-energy phenomena, from supernovae to dark matterCredit: Photo: Amy ...
Discovery of long sought tiny explosions on the Sun
Credit: Pete Wheeler/ICRAR The Sun is the brightest object in the sky and has been studied for hundreds of years, ...
Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Credit: Sunmyon Chon Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the ...
Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium
Credit: David A. Hardy A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined ...
