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A smart fiber being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits.
Dec 17th, 2020
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Astrophysicists have for the first time observed a gas filament with a length of 50 million light years. Its structure is strikingly similar to the predictions of computer simulations.
Dec 17th, 2020
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By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Booetes. The signal could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.
Dec 16th, 2020
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Astronomers discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each other from a very large distance. Although these objects look like giant exoplanets, they formed in the same way as stars, proving that the mechanisms driving star formation can produce rogue worlds in unusual systems deprived of a Sun.
Dec 16th, 2020
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New study determines that black holes discharge the energy in their plasma jets much farther away from the black hole's center than previously thought, resolving long-standing debate and offering clues to jet formation and structure.
Dec 15th, 2020
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Researchers report a cheap and efficient method to make liquid fertilizer (ammonia) from simplified artificial urine, serving an ideal dual purpose of growing food and treating waste.
Dec 15th, 2020
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Chemical signatures give away the distance to the most distant galaxy.
Dec 15th, 2020
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Physicists have resolved a long-lasting discrepancy between the measured velocities of interstellar oxygen atoms and other elements in our galaxy: a difference of 380 km/s, which astrophysical measurements of X-ray absorption by oxygen atoms gave, had given astrophysicists a headache.
Dec 14th, 2020
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Researchers developed a novel multiple-cell cavity design, dubbed 'pizza cavity'. Just like pizzas are cut into several slices, multiple partitions vertically divide the cavity volume into identical pieces (cells). With almost no volume to be lost, this multiple-cell haloscope enables the meaningful output of high-frequency region scanning.
Dec 11th, 2020
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The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed 'Planet Nine'.
Dec 10th, 2020
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The first all-sky survey performed by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on-board the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma observatory has revealed a large hourglass-shaped structure in the Milky Way. These 'eROSITA bubbles' show a striking similarity to the Fermi bubbles, detected a decade ago at even higher energies.
Dec 10th, 2020
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Stellar flares with a chance of radio bursts: that's the weather from Proxima Centauri. New research suggests exoplanets around red dwarf M-type stars will likely be exposed to coronal mass ejections, making the likelihood of finding life as we know it pretty slim.
Dec 10th, 2020
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Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
Dec 9th, 2020
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Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes could be used to send spacecraft to the far reaches of our planetary system relatively fast, and to monitor and understand near-Earth objects that might collide with our planet.
Dec 9th, 2020
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When a previously typical star's behavior rapidly changes in a few decades, astronomers take note and get to work.
Dec 4th, 2020
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Researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae.
Dec 4th, 2020
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