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Radio telescope ALMA finds earliest example of merging galaxies
Researchers using ALMA observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billion years ago. This is the earliest galaxy where this useful combination of three signals has been detected.
July 1, 2019 Read more
The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate - and its creators don't know how it works
The new model can envision universes with unique parameters, such as extra dark matter, even without receiving training data in which those parameters varied.
June 26, 2019 Read more
Astronomers make first detection of polarised radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets
The polarisation signature reveals magnetic fields in the universe's most powerful explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than first thought.
June 19, 2019 Read more
Astronomers investigate missing matter and the workings of the galactic ecosystem
Astronomers have investigated how galactic halos interact with the rest of their galaxies.
June 18, 2019 Read more
Radically different telescope design offers deeper look into space
A radically different type of X-ray space telescope has been designed by scientists in Sweden, using advanced optic techniques that were originally developed in medical imaging research.
June 18, 2019 Read more
New evidence shows crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc
The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2's collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy's characteristic ripples in its outer disc.
June 12, 2019 Read more
Citizen scientists re-tune Hubble's galaxy classification
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project.
June 11, 2019 Read more
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
Two theoretical physicists have a new candidate for dark matter and a possible way to detect it.
June 10, 2019 Read more
Direct from distant planet: Spectral clues to puzzling paradox
Spectrographic analysis yields empirical benchmark for newborn 'hot Jupiter'.
June 10, 2019 Read more
Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole
This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument, which analyses the infrared light gathered by the Gran Telescopio Canarias.
June 7, 2019 Read more
Name an exoplanet
IAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.
June 6, 2019 Read more
Cool, nebulous ring around Milky Way's supermassive black hole
New ALMA observations reveal a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This nebulous disk gives astronomers new insights into the workings of accretion.
June 5, 2019 Read more
Solving the sun's super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
It's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? Researchers believe they have the answer, and hope to prove it with help from NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
June 4, 2019 Read more
Small particles can have big consequences for electronics in space missions
Researchers have only recently started to investigate in detail the electron-induced direct and indirect ionization effects, and their potentially destructive effects for space missions and experiments
June 3, 2019 Read more
'Forbidden' planet found wandering 'Neptunian Desert'
An international group of astronomers has identified a rogue planet orbiting its star in the so-called Neptunian Desert.
May 29, 2019 Read more
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Researchers discover a process that turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygen.
May 28, 2019 Read more
18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Astronomers have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlooked.
May 22, 2019 Read more
Galaxies as 'cosmic cauldrons'
Young stars heat molecular clouds and drive hot interstellar gas bubbles throughout galaxies.
May 22, 2019 Read more