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Researchers offer another means by which stars could have produced heavy elements: tiny black holes that came into contact with and are captured by neutron stars, and then destroy them.
Aug 4th, 2017
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Astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological models.
Aug 3rd, 2017
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The elemental composition of the Sun's hot atmosphere known as the corona is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle, a team of scientists has revealed for the first time.
Aug 3rd, 2017
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Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system, with an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron.
Aug 3rd, 2017
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The stellar birthrate peaked around 10 billion years ago, and has declined steadily since then. However, the cause of the declining stellar birthrate is still not well understood.
Aug 2nd, 2017
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Scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical precursors of life.
Jul 28th, 2017
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For the first time, a team of scientists have calculated the distribution of all light energy contained within the Milky Way, which will provide new insight into the make-up of our galaxy and how stars in spiral galaxies such as ours form.
Jul 28th, 2017
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New maps of dark matter dynamics in the Universe have been produced by a team of international cosmologists.
Jul 25th, 2017
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The universe is awash with alcohol. In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive. What is it doing there? Is it time to send out some big rockets to start collecting it?
Jul 24th, 2017
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A web that passes through infinite intergalactic spaces, a dense cosmic forest illuminated by very distant lights and a huge enigma to solve. These are the picturesque ingredients of a scientific research that adds an important element for understanding one of the fundamental components of our Universe: the dark matter.
Jul 21st, 2017
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How do you work out if a strange signal from space really is a message from aliens? The simple answer is that you have to rule out everything else first and only then can you think it may be aliens.
Jul 18th, 2017
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A research group in the UK thinks that atoms may have an edge in detecting elusive, high-frequency gravitational waves.
Jul 17th, 2017
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Despite the fact that the spot is so familiar to most of us, there's a lot that astronomers still don't understand about it. The new Juno observations may finally begin to unravel its mysteries.
Jul 13th, 2017
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Spiral galaxies are strongly rotating whereas the rotation velocity of ellipticals is much lower. A new study investigates the reasons of such a dichotomy revealing that it is imprinted at formation.
Jul 13th, 2017
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The comprehensive new model finally makes it possible to conclusively explain this complex gas motion.
Jul 13th, 2017
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Astronomers have used a novel technique to analyse the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they point out that there is something perturbing them: a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-Sun separation.
Jul 12th, 2017
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Researchers have created a new computational model of an electrospray thruster using ionic liquid ferrofluid - a promising technology for propelling small satellites through space.
Jul 11th, 2017
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'Synthetic observations' simulating nascent planetary systems could help explain a puzzle that has vexed astronomers for a long time.
Jul 11th, 2017
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