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Artificial intelligence explains hydrogen's behavior on giant planets
Using computer simulations powered by machine-learning algorithms, scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding how hydrogen behaves on Saturn and Jupiter.
September 10, 2020 Read more
Astrophysicists detect the strongest magnetic field in the universe
The magnetic field is up to one billion Tesla, which is tens of millions of times stronger than what can be generated in Earth laboratories.
September 10, 2020 Read more
SETI survey finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.
September 9, 2020 Read more
How small particles could reshape Bennu and other asteroids
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft observed tiny bits of material jumping off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. A new study tracks where those particles went.
September 9, 2020 Read more
How the Milky Way stole an enormous gas halo from our dwarf neighbours
An international team of astronomers has solved a 50-year-old mystery: why is there an enormous gas halo the mass of a billion Suns persisting around the Magellanic Clouds?
September 9, 2020 Read more
Revealing the secrets of high-energy cosmic particles
Researchers have started an international initiative to build a neutrino telescope several cubic kilometers in size in the northeastern Pacific.
September 9, 2020 Read more
Gut microbes could allow space travelers to stay healthy on long voyages
Review highlights that treatments targeting the gut microbiome could protect space travelers against negative health effects of space travel.
September 8, 2020 Read more
How to have a blast like a black hole
Scientists use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, research that may help explain the still mysterious X-rays that can be emitted from some celestial bodies.
September 7, 2020 Read more
Misaligned planet-forming rings around triple young stars
An international team of astronomers found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis. The system has three large, misaligned rings with sufficient dust for planet formation. The misaligned rings might have been formed by a hidden planet between the rings, which would provide a clue to understand planet formation around a multiple star system.
September 4, 2020 Read more
First ever detection of monster black hole collision, 150 times heavier than the Sun (w/video)
Astronomers have reported the first ever direct observation of the most massive black hole merger to date. Two monster black holes collided to form an even more massive object - an intermediate-mass black hole, about 150 times as heavy as the Sun.
September 2, 2020 Read more
A disk of gas would explain mysterious light changes observed in Sagittarius constellation
Astronomers analyzed 18.5 years of data, to propose an answer to the enigmatic variations seen in the binary system.
September 2, 2020 Read more
A direct view of star/disk interactions
Astrophysicists have for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars.
August 31, 2020 Read more
Galaxy simulations shed light on Milky Way's origins
Astronomers have produced the most advanced galaxy simulations of their kind, which could help reveal the origins of the Milky Way and dozens of small neighboring dwarf galaxies.
August 31, 2020 Read more
Gravitational waves can show when core of dying star breaks down into free quarks
The quantum chromodynamics phase transition in core-collapse supernovae has been examined for the first time, using state-of-the-art multi-dimensional supernova simulations and unique imprints of such a phase transition on the emitted gravitational-wave and neutrino signals have been detected.
August 31, 2020 Read more
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
In a landmark study, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor.
August 27, 2020 Read more
Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
A team of astronomers has detected for the first time the constant infrared emission from winds produced during the eruption of a black hole in an X-ray binary.
August 27, 2020 Read more
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermia.
August 26, 2020 Read more
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescope.
August 25, 2020 Read more