Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
TAMA300 blazes trail for improved gravitational wave astronomy
Credit: NAOJ Researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have used the infrastructure of the former TAMA300 gravitational ...
‘Elegant’ solution reveals how the universe got its structure
A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmologyCredit: Photograph by Yuri Beletsky, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution ...
An eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST
Credit: ESA/Hubble Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. ...
Hubble celebrates its 30th anniversary with a tapestry of blazing starbirth
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI Hubble Space Telescope's iconic images and scientific breakthroughs have redefined our view of the Universe. ...
Hungry galaxies grow fat on the flesh of their neighbours
Modelling shows big galaxies get bigger by merging with smaller onesCredit: Gupta et al/ASTRO 3D/ IllustrisTNG collaboration. Galaxies grow large ...
Penn Engineers’ ‘nanocardboard’ flyers could serve as martian atmospheric probes
Credit: Bargatin Group, Penn Engineering This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with ...
Hubble observes aftermath of massive collision
The Hubble Space Telescope offers insight into the nature of exoplanet Fomalhaut bCredit: ESA/NASA, M. Kornmesser What astronomers thought was ...
Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, UCI astronomers say
Findings may change fundamental thinking about star system formation, dynamicsCredit: Courtesy of Sijie Yu / UCI Irvine, Calif., April 20, ...
New clues to predict the risks astronauts will face from space radiation on long missions
Credit: Colorado State University Photography The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, aims to send human missions to Mars in ...
ESO telescope sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein right
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star ...
Journey to the center of the Earth
First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's coreCredit: © 2020 Kelvinsong - CC BY-SA 3.0 ...
T2K insight into the origin of the universe
Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major ...
New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected
Credit: Courtesy of Cary Forest / UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide ...
Solar power plants get help from satellites to predict cloud cover
Scientists develop a method to convert GOES satellite data into detailed information about cloud cover properties, enhancing the ability to ...
Beacon in space: BRITE Constellation observes complete nova eruption for the first time
The recordings of a complete nova eruption are unique worldwideCredit: © Nova_by K. Ulaczyk, Warschau Universität Observatorium Since the beginning ...
Scientists discover supernova that outshines all others
Credit: Aaron Geller (Northwestern University) A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than ...
New formation theory explains the mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua
A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object ...
Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research
2D perovskite thin films boost sensitivity 100-fold compared to conventional detectors, require no outside power source, and enable low-dose dental ...
Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars with Webb
Credit: Credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, and S.V Ramirez (NExSCI/Caltech) High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our ...
