Black holes growing faster than expected
Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered how supermassive black holes grow - and it's not what was expected.
Jan 17th, 2013
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Astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered how supermassive black holes grow - and it's not what was expected.
Jan 17th, 2013
Read moreEngineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem.
Jan 16th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on Mars.
Jan 16th, 2013
Read moreAn evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery.
Jan 16th, 2013
Read more200 high-school students participate in MIT's annual Zero Robotics competition.
Jan 15th, 2013
Read moreNASA's Space Technology Program is looking for visionary advanced concepts. This year's annual call for NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) is seeking proposals for revolutionary concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions. Proposed concepts should enable new missions or significantly improve current approaches to achieve aerospace objectives.
Jan 15th, 2013
Read moreESA is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a US-European asteroid deflection mission now under study.
Jan 15th, 2013
Read moreAn international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae. The team of scientists measured the nuclear structure of the radioactive neon produced through this process in unprecedented detail.
Jan 15th, 2013
Read moreGalaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel - in this case, fresh gas - but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now, scientists have provided direct empirical evidence for these gas flows using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Jan 14th, 2013
Read moreIf dark energy did not exist, the gravitational pull exerted by matter would slow down the expansion of the universe, but observations have concluded that the opposite is the case.Dark energy is what makes the universe expand in an accelerating way.
Jan 14th, 2013
Read moreThe sight of the Millennium Falcon making the "jump to lightspeed" is one of the most iconic images from the Star Wars trilogy. But University of Leicester students have calculated that - in reality - Han, Luke and Leia would not see the light from stars stretching past the ship as we are shown in the movies.
Jan 14th, 2013
Read morePeering deep into the dim edges of a distorted pinwheel galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), astronomers at Case Western Reserve University and their colleagues have discovered a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf caught before it had a chance to form any stars.
Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreResearchers at the Centre of Astrobiology have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear to be similar to those of the salt deposits on Mars and Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreThe spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.
Jan 11th, 2013
Read moreA new infrared image from ESO's VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in striking detail. This cluster contains millions of stars, and there are many nestled at its core that are exotic and display unusual properties.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreAdvanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreChina's first high-resolution, stereo mapping satellite Ziyuan III meets international standards, ridding the country of its reliance on imports of satellite images.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreIn their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that exomoons are just as likely to support life as exoplanets.
Jan 10th, 2013
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