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Mystery of super flash solved

The brightest flash of light in the cosmos could be a rare event involving a star and a supermassive black hole.

December 15, 2016 Read more

Magnetic mirror could shed new light on gravitational waves and the early universe

Device modulates polarization across wide range of microwave frequencies to map radiation from shortly after the Big Bang.

December 13, 2016 Read more

Dark Energy Survey discovers potential new dwarf planet

Thanks to scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the solar system just got another member.

December 12, 2016 Read more

A syllabus in cosmic rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

December 12, 2016 Read more

'Hyper-starburst' galaxy churns out stars, clues to universe's evolution

A recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction, revealed by a group of astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

December 8, 2016 Read more

Will Earth still exist 5 billion years from now?

What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years' time, the Sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today? Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis. Five billion years ago, this star was very similar to the Sun as it is today.

December 8, 2016 Read more

Neutron stars on the home PC

Astronomers find most massive double neutron star system with Einstein@Home.

December 8, 2016 Read more

Second-generation stars identified, giving clues about their predecessors

Astronomers have identified what they believe to be the second generation of stars, shedding light on the nature of the universe's first stars.

December 6, 2016 Read more

New telescope chip offers clear view of alien planets

Scientists have developed a new optical chip for a telescope that enables astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets that may support life.

December 6, 2016 Read more

Where giant galaxies are born

International team of scientists has discovered that the biggest galaxies in the universe develop in cosmic clouds of cold gas.

December 2, 2016 Read more

Solar winds transport more energy towards the Earth than expected

An international team of scientists showed that solar winds transport way more energy towards the Earth than previously thought.

December 1, 2016 Read more

What do Netflix, Google and planetary systems have in common?

Same class of algorithms used by Google and Netflix can also tell us if distant planetary systems are stable or not.

December 1, 2016 Read more

Tangled threads weave through cosmic oddity

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater detail than ever before. The elliptical galaxy is a beautiful cosmic oddity with a bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments.

December 1, 2016 Read more

First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?

VLT observations of neutron star may confirm 80-year-old prediction about the vacuum.

November 30, 2016 Read more

Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet paves the way to search for alien life

Astronomers have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. While transits have previously been observed for thousands of other extrasolar planets, K2-3d is important because there is a possibility that it might harbor extraterrestrial life.

November 28, 2016 Read more

Shear brilliance: computing tackles the mystery of the dark universe

Scientists working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK's GridPP collaboration to tackle one of the Universe's biggest mysteries - the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

November 24, 2016 Read more

Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists has determined using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

November 22, 2016 Read more

Stellar simulators

Astrophysicists will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars.

November 22, 2016 Read more