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Scientists refine the search for dark matter

Researchers have developed a more effective technique in the search for clues about dark matter in the universe. They can now analyse much larger amounts of the data generated at CERN.

Oct 29th, 2018

Study provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars

Scientists get best measure yet of why star formation stopped in galaxy clusters in the early universe.

Oct 24th, 2018

In 5-10 years, gravitational waves could accurately measure universe's expansion

New LIGO readings could improve disputed measurement quickly.

Oct 23rd, 2018

Weighing planets and asteroids

A team of scientists from the International Pulsar Timing Array consortium has used pulsar timing data to measure the masses of the dwarf-planet Ceres and other asteroids.

Oct 23rd, 2018

A scientific theory proposes a new Celestial Mechanics

A new scientific theory points out that we can understand the behavior of bodies subjected to successive accelerations by rotations, by means of field theory.

Oct 23rd, 2018

Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets

Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets are forming around their stars.

Oct 19th, 2018

Supermassive black holes and supercomputers

Researchers reveal the story of the oldest stars and galaxies, compiled from 20 years of simulating the early universe.

Oct 17th, 2018

The cosmological lithium problem

This problem is one of the still unresolved questions of the current standard description of the Big Bang.

Oct 8th, 2018

When Is a nova not a nova? When a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collide

International research team confirms collision of white dwarf and brown dwarf stars.

Oct 8th, 2018

Journey to the beginning of time

With the Pristine survey, an international team is looking for and researching the oldest stars in our Universe. The goal is to learn more about the young Universe right after the Big Bang.

Oct 8th, 2018

X-ray telescope reveals the Milky Way's halo of hot gas is fed by supernovae

Satellite x-ray observations reveal that supernovae feed the gas cloud that surrounds our galaxy.

Oct 5th, 2018

A new era in the quest for dark matter

In a review that was published this week, physicists argue that the time has come to broaden and diversify the experimental effort, and to incorporate astronomical surveys and gravitational wave observations in the quest for the nature of dark matter.

Oct 4th, 2018

Scientists discover new nursery for superpowered photons

One of the weirdest objects in the Milky Way just got weirder. Scientists have discovered a new source of the highest-energy photons in the cosmos: a strange system known as a microquasar, located in our neck of the galaxy a neighborly 15,000 light years from Earth.