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Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst

Astronomers report the first detection of bursts of cosmic ray electrons accelerated by shock waves originating from major eruptions on the sun.

Dec 3rd, 2020

A hint of new physics in polarized radiation from the early Universe

Astrophysicists have developed a new method to calibrate detectors to the light from dust in our Galaxy, thereby describing a new physics, with 99.2 percent accuracy, that may show parity symmetry breaking.

Dec 2nd, 2020

New research shows how ghost-like neutrinos helped shape the Universe

Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact of elusive particles called neutrinos on the formation and growth of the large-scale structure of the Universe. But now, a research team from Japan has developed a method that overcomes this hurdle.

Dec 1st, 2020

Earth faster, closer to black hole in new map of galaxy

Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Nov 30th, 2020

Sun model completely confirmed for the first time

The Borexino Experiment research team has succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the sun's second fusion process, the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen cycle (CNO cycle) for the first time. This means that all of the theoretical predictions on how energy is generated within the sun have now also been experimentally verified.

Nov 26th, 2020

Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds

The long-held belief that the Milky Way is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight.

Nov 23rd, 2020

The distances of the stars

In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax - setting the first scale of the Universe.

Nov 19th, 2020

In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars

Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of this system suggest it is the remnant of two stars meeting their ultimate demise: an inward orbital dance that resulted in the two stars merging. The result offers a new window into the fate of many tightly orbiting binary star systems.

Nov 18th, 2020

Are there 300 million more Earths out there?

NASA estimates the Milky Way contains hundreds of millions of potentially habitable planets.

Nov 17th, 2020

Astrophysicists decipher the Milky Way's family tree

An international team of astrophysicists has succeeded in reconstructing the first complete family tree of our home galaxy by analysing the properties of globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way with artificial intelligence.

Nov 17th, 2020

Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes

Fast radio bursts, unpredictable millisecond-long radio signals seen at huge distances across the universe, are generated by extreme stars called magnetars - and are astonishingly diverse in brightness.

Nov 16th, 2020

Solar system formed in less than 200,000 years

The formation of the solar system may be a long time ago, but it was not an exceptionally long process according to an international research team of planetologists.

Nov 13th, 2020

Hubble sees unexplained brightness from colossal explosion

Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Astronomers were baffled that the near-infrared emission was 10 times brighter than predicted.