How do the strongest magnets in the universe form?
A team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how magnetars form.
Oct 9th, 2019
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Pressure runs high at edge of solar system
Out 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 - and you can help name them
Astronomers 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 moreAstronomers observe year-long plateaus in decline of type Ia supernova light curves
This 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 moreNot long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
Researchers 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 moreThree gravitational-wave detectors sign agreement to begin joint observation
Collaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave events.
Oct 4th, 2019
Read moreThis is how a 'fuzzy' universe may have looked
Scientists simulate early galaxy formation in a universe of dark matter that is ultralight, or 'fuzzy', rather than cold or warm.
Oct 3rd, 2019
Read moreQuantum vacuum: Less than zero energy
An international research team has investigated the extent to which negative energy is possible.
Oct 2nd, 2019
Read moreNeutrino produced in a cosmic collider far away
The 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 moreRecord breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies
An 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 moreGiant exoplanet around tiny star challenges understanding of how planets form
Astronomers 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 moreLife's building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
An 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 moreEyeballing a black hole's mass
There 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 moreLife and death of the stars: Researchers investigate extreme galaxy environments
An 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 moreNew hunt for dark matter: Physicists theorize a novel way to explore the nature of dark matter with lasers
A 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 moreStanding room only crowd engages in student's warp drive theory speech
An 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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