IceCube helps demystify strange radio bursts from deep space
For a decade, astronomers have puzzled over ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space.
Sep 25th, 2017
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For a decade, astronomers have puzzled over ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space.
Sep 25th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers review the most recent results on the material that obscures AGN.
Sep 25th, 2017
Read moreFifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies. Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high energy cosmic rays - whether they came from our galaxy or outside the Milky Way.
Sep 22nd, 2017
Read moreCharged particles may be small, but they matter to astronauts. NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating these particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and its effects on the human body.
Sep 22nd, 2017
Read moreThe most-studied galaxy in the universe - the Milky Way - might not be as 'typical' as previously thought, according to a new study.
Sep 20th, 2017
Read moreIn the faint southern constellation of Antlia the careful observer with binoculars will spot a very red star, which varies slightly in brightness from week to week. This very unusual star is called U Antliae and new observations are revealing a remarkably thin spherical shell around it.
Sep 20th, 2017
Read moreA group-analysis of 30 exoplanets orbiting distant stars suggests that size, not mass, is a key factor in whether a planet?s atmosphere can be detected.
Sep 19th, 2017
Read moreA study using multiple radio telescopes confirms that supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies can form gravitationally bound pairs when galaxies merge.
Sep 18th, 2017
Read moreThe spacecraft, now a memory, leaves us with an enormous legacy - a dataset that will take decades to fully exploit.
Sep 18th, 2017
Read moreNew study invokes intriguing self-interacting dark matter theory.
Sep 14th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an exoplanet that had already been seen losing its atmosphere, which forms an enormous cloud of hydrogen, giving the planet the appearance of a giant comet.
Sep 14th, 2017
Read moreIn research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.
Sep 13th, 2017
Read moreFor the first time astronomers have measured how a galaxy's spin affects its shape.
Sep 11th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise.
Sep 11th, 2017
Read moreA group of scientists have turned exoplanet-hunting on its head, in a study that instead looks at how an alien observer might be able to detect Earth using our own methods.
Sep 8th, 2017
Read moreAn international team of researchers has discovered a way to use observations at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths to uncover characteristics about superluminous supernovae previously impossible to determine.
Sep 7th, 2017
Read moreThe Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet 'Chury'. Two researchers advance the theory that this matter has its origin in interstellar space and predates the birth of the Solar System.
Sep 6th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Sep 5th, 2017
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