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A team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how magnetars form.
Oct 9th, 2019
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A team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how magnetars form.
Oct 9th, 2019
Read moreOut at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and electrons exert on one another when they flow and collide, was recently measured by scientists in totality for the first time - and it was found to be greater than expected.
Oct 8th, 2019
Read moreAstronomers found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet's total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79.
Oct 7th, 2019
Read moreThis is a surprising finding as astronomers had expected that the light curve would not only continue decreasing but even experience a sharp drop, rather than flattening into a plateau.
Oct 7th, 2019
Read moreResearchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away.
Oct 6th, 2019
Read moreCollaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave events.
Oct 4th, 2019
Read moreScientists simulate early galaxy formation in a universe of dark matter that is ultralight, or 'fuzzy', rather than cold or warm.
Oct 3rd, 2019
Read moreAn international research team has investigated the extent to which negative energy is possible.
Oct 2nd, 2019
Read moreThe neutrino event IceCube 170922A, detected with IceCube at the South Pole, appears to originate from the distant active galaxy TXS 0506+056, at a distance of 3.8 billion light years.
Oct 2nd, 2019
Read moreAn international team of astronomers has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion light years away. This protocluster is the most distant protocluster ever found. The discovery suggests that a large structure such as a protocluster already existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old or 6 percent of its present age.
Oct 1st, 2019
Read moreAstronomers have discovered the first large gas giant orbiting a small star. The planet was found orbiting the nearby red dwarf star GJ 3512. This discovery challenges scientists' very understanding of how planets form: low-mass stars should have less available material to form planets.
Sep 27th, 2019
Read moreAn experiment shows that one of the basic units of life - nucleobases - could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars.
Sep 27th, 2019
Read moreThere are no scales for weighing black holes. Yet astrophysicists have devised a new way for indirectly measuring the mass of a black hole, while also confirming its existence. They tested the new method on the Messier 87 active galaxy.
Sep 24th, 2019
Read moreAn international team of 30 scientists is using one of the world's largest telescopes to investigate and map extreme galaxy environments in brilliant detail.
Sep 18th, 2019
Read moreA theory about what dark matter might be suggests that it could be a particle called an axion and that these could be detectable with laser-based experiments that already exist.
Sep 18th, 2019
Read moreAn overview of the state of the art of warp drive theory and the feasibility of a future working system.
Sep 16th, 2019
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