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The occurrence of magnetism in the universe

Precession sufficient to generate a magnetic field.

Mar 12th, 2018

Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home

Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient 'relic galaxy' in our own cosmic backyard.

Mar 12th, 2018

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

A new planet near the habitable zone around a bright cool star.

Mar 12th, 2018

NASA's Webb Telescope to make a splash in search for interstellar water

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into molecular clouds to gain new insights into the origin and evolution of water and other key building blocks for habitable planets.

Mar 9th, 2018

Unveiling the depths of Jupiter's winds

Three papers answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet?

Mar 8th, 2018

A new kind of star

Together with gravity, the polarization of the quantum vacuum may allow stars to exist in unconventional configurations.

Mar 8th, 2018

A peculiar galactic clash

Galaxies are not static islands of stars -- they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this spectacular Hubble image of Arp 256, galaxies can collide in a crash of cosmic proportions.

Mar 8th, 2018

ALMA reveals inner web of stellar nursery

New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments in the Orion Nebula. These features appear red-hot and fiery in this dramatic picture, but in reality are so cold that astronomers must use telescopes like ALMA to observe them.

Mar 8th, 2018

First look at Jupiter's poles show strange geometric arrays of storms

With NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have gotten a good look at the top and bottom of the planet for the first time. What they found astounded them: bizarre geometric arrangements of storms, each arrayed around one cyclone over the north and south poles - unlike any storm formation seen in the universe.

Mar 7th, 2018

Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to the formation of life's building blocks in space

Experiments reveal how a hydrocarbon called pyrene could form near stars.

Mar 7th, 2018

Physicists lay groundwork to better understand the birth of the universe

New research extends fundamental thermodynamic theories to describe microscopic systems at high energies, like the universe at the Big Bang.

Mar 6th, 2018

Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map

A research team of multiple institutes released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The team located the positions and lensing signals of the dark matter halos and found indications that the number of halos could be inconsistent with what the simplest cosmological model suggests.

Mar 2nd, 2018

Can strongly lensed type 1a supernovae resolve cosmology's biggest controversy?

Astrophysicists discovered how to control the 'micolensing' effects of strongly lensed Type 1a Supernovae with supercomputers. Armed with this knowledge they believe they will be able to find 1,000 strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in realtime from LSST data - that's 20 times more than previous expectations.