Life'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
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Eyeballing 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
Read moreScientists developing single photon detector to help search for habitable exoplanets
The extremely sensitive detector would allow scientists to see the faintest observable objects in space, such as Earth-like planets around other stars.
Sep 13th, 2019
Read moreBlack hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier
The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal, and researchers don't know why.
Sep 11th, 2019
Read moreAstronomers find water vapor on habitable-zone exoplanet for first time
With data from the Hubble Space Telescope, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth with habitable temperatures.
Sep 11th, 2019
Read moreGiant balloon-like structures discovered at center of Milky Way
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the largest structures ever observed in the Milky Way. A newly spotted pair of radio-emitting bubbles reach hundreds of light-years tall, dwarfing all other structures in the central region of the galaxy.
Sep 11th, 2019
Read moreScientists detect the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time
Physicists have 'heard' the ringing of an infant black hole for the first time, and found that the pattern of this ringing does, in fact, predict the black hole's mass and spin - more evidence that Einstein was right all along.
Sep 11th, 2019
Read moreAfterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions
Researchers use Hubble to capture deepest optical image of first neutron star merger.
Sep 9th, 2019
Read moreAnd then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universe
Researchers hunt for a 12-billion-year-old signal that marks the end of the post Big Bang 'dark age'.
Sep 9th, 2019
Read moreChemical element potassium detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
A team of astronomers detected the chemical element potassium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, for the first time with overwhelming significance and applying high-resolution spectroscopy.
Sep 4th, 2019
Read moreSupernova remnants used to probe how star explosion took shape
The evolution of an exploding star begins more haphazardly than previously thought.
Aug 30th, 2019
Read moreThe dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures
New study suggests that the nightsides of hot Jupiters share clouds made of minerals.
Aug 28th, 2019
Read more'Green peas' provide clues to the early days of the universe
It is probable that primordial galaxies triggered the period in the history of the universe known as 'cosmic reionisation'. Astronomers have succeeded in demonstrating this by studying green pea galaxies.
Aug 28th, 2019
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