Tungsten as interstellar radiation shielding?
Metallophilic microorganisms could benefit from the heavy metal in harsh survival conditions.
Jul 9th, 2019
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Metallophilic microorganisms could benefit from the heavy metal in harsh survival conditions.
Jul 9th, 2019
Read moreSupercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form.
Jul 8th, 2019
Read moreAstronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of a massive baby star. They found that it shares many common features with lighter baby stars. This implies that the process of star formation is the same, regardless of the final mass of the resulting star.
Jul 8th, 2019
Read moreAstronomers have demonstrated how a combination of gravitational-wave and radio observations, along with theoretical modeling, can turn the mergers of pairs of neutron stars into a 'cosmic ruler' capable of measuring the expansion of the Universe and resolving an outstanding question over its rate.
Jul 8th, 2019
Read moreScientists have proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain the rapid disappearance of methane from Mars' atmosphere.
Jul 2nd, 2019
Read moreResearchers using ALMA observed signals of oxygen, carbon, and dust from a galaxy in the early Universe 13 billion years ago. This is the earliest galaxy where this useful combination of three signals has been detected.
Jul 1st, 2019
Read moreThe new model can envision universes with unique parameters, such as extra dark matter, even without receiving training data in which those parameters varied.
Jun 26th, 2019
Read moreThe polarisation signature reveals magnetic fields in the universe's most powerful explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than first thought.
Jun 19th, 2019
Read moreAstronomers have investigated how galactic halos interact with the rest of their galaxies.
Jun 18th, 2019
Read moreA radically different type of X-ray space telescope has been designed by scientists in Sweden, using advanced optic techniques that were originally developed in medical imaging research.
Jun 18th, 2019
Read moreThe newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2's collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy's characteristic ripples in its outer disc.
Jun 12th, 2019
Read moreHundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project.
Jun 11th, 2019
Read moreTwo theoretical physicists have a new candidate for dark matter and a possible way to detect it.
Jun 10th, 2019
Read moreSpectrographic analysis yields empirical benchmark for newborn 'hot Jupiter'.
Jun 10th, 2019
Read moreThis is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument, which analyses the infrared light gathered by the Gran Telescopio Canarias.
Jun 7th, 2019
Read moreIAU100 NameExoWorlds gives every country in the world the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.
Jun 6th, 2019
Read moreNew ALMA observations reveal a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This nebulous disk gives astronomers new insights into the workings of accretion.
Jun 5th, 2019
Read moreIt's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? Researchers believe they have the answer, and hope to prove it with help from NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
Jun 4th, 2019
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