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Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of Sun's interaction with galaxy
New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, suggests that our sun and planets are surrounded by a giant, rounded system of magnetic field from the sun - calling into question the alternate view of the solar magnetic fields trailing behind the sun in the shape of a long comet tail.
April 24, 2017 Read more
Can we see a singularity?
A team of scientists has found new ways to detect a bare or naked singularity, the most extreme object in the universe.
April 20, 2017 Read more
Hubble observes first multiple images of explosive distance indicator
Lensed supernova will give insight into the expansion of the universe.
April 20, 2017 Read more
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
Transiting rocky super-Earth found in habitable zone of quiet red dwarf star.
April 19, 2017 Read more
New study ranks hazardous asteroid effects from least to most destructive
Violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans.
April 19, 2017 Read more
New method can model chemistry in extreme magnetic fields of white dwarfs
Researchers have developed a new methodology to calculate theoretical spectra for atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields exhibited by up to one-fifth of white dwarfs.
April 19, 2017 Read more
Hydrogen halo lifts the veil of our galactic home
Astronomers find missing mass in the hydrogen halo that surrounds our home galaxy.
April 18, 2017 Read more
Researchers provide new insight into dark matter halos
New research could shed light on the distribution of one of the most mysterious substances in the universe.
April 17, 2017 Read more
Scientist measures brightness of the universe with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
Planetary mission offers up-close view of Cosmic Optical Background.
April 11, 2017 Read more
Binary star caught in violent cycle
Massive gouts of x-rays may arise from an unusual conjunction between a neutron star and the disk of matter around its companion.
April 7, 2017 Read more
Atmosphere detected around an Earth-like planet
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth planet GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant step on the path towards the detection of life outside our Solar System.
April 6, 2017 Read more
Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes
Astrophysicists have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.
April 5, 2017 Read more
Portrait of a black hole
IRAM's 30-metre dish is part of the Event Horizon Telescope which is looking into the centre of the Milky Way.
March 31, 2017 Read more
Mysterious cosmic explosion surprises astronomers studying the distant x-ray universe
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but it may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
March 31, 2017 Read more
Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all.
March 31, 2017 Read more
Wrong-way asteroid plays 'chicken' with Jupiter
For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the 'wrong' way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space.
March 30, 2017 Read more
Solving the case of the missing x-rays
A fierce wind obscures x-rays emitted from a disk of matter around a black hole.
March 24, 2017 Read more
Gravitational wave kicks monster black hole out of galactic core
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.
March 23, 2017 Read more