Black holes ruled out as universe's missing dark matter
Statistical analysis shows black holes can make up no more than 40 percent of dark matter.
Oct 2nd, 2018
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Statistical analysis shows black holes can make up no more than 40 percent of dark matter.
Oct 2nd, 2018
Read moreA team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA's Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards - perhaps from another galaxy.
Oct 2nd, 2018
Read moreNew, three-dimensional simulations reveal the inner workings of one of the universe's most mysterious stars.
Sep 26th, 2018
Read moreEquators of Sun-like stars rotate up to two and a half times as fast as higher latitudes, researchers have discovered.
Sep 20th, 2018
Read moreAstronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the centre of the billion-light year distant galaxy PG211+143.
Sep 20th, 2018
Read morePosition and movement data of more than six million stars show substructures that were never seen, originated by an impact that occurred more than 300 million years ago.
Sep 19th, 2018
Read moreAstronauts on a mission to Mars would be exposed to at least 60% of the total radiation dose limit recommended for their career during the journey itself to and from the Red Planet, according to data from the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
Sep 19th, 2018
Read moreComputer simulations of neutron stars could help better understand the possible sources of gravitational waves.
Sep 18th, 2018
Read moreCross-disciplinary team will track life-essential elements during planets' early evolution.
Sep 17th, 2018
Read moreAn international team of scientists has found a way to recover the birth places of stars in our Galaxy. This is one of the major goals in the field of Galactic Archaeology, whose aim is to reconstruct the formation history of the Milky Way.
Sep 13th, 2018
Read moreAs large stars explode, their interiors collapse down to a point at which all of their particles become neutrons. If the newly born star has a magnetic field and rotates fast enough, it can accelerate nearby charged particles and become what astronomers call a pulsar wind nebula.
Sep 12th, 2018
Read moreMachine learning algorithm also helps search for new kinds of signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.
Sep 10th, 2018
Read moreParticle flow patterns suggest even small-scale collisions create drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma.
Sep 6th, 2018
Read moreAn international team of researchers has proposed a new method to investigate the inner workings of supernovae explosions. This new method uses meteorites and is unique in that it can determine the contribution from electron anti-neutrinos, enigmatic particles which can't be tracked through other means.
Sep 3rd, 2018
Read moreRecent research indicates that the giant gas planet might contain many times more water than Earth.
Aug 30th, 2018
Read moreStellar association members could help astronomers understand the evolution of stars and the properties of future exoplanet discoveries.
Aug 28th, 2018
Read moreResearchers show how Jupiter was formed. Data collected from meteorites had indicated that the growth of the giant planet had been delayed for two million years. Now the researchers have found an explanation: Collisions with kilometer-sized blocks generated high energy, which meant that in this phase hardly any accretion of gas could take place and the planet could only grow slowly.
Aug 27th, 2018
Read moreA survey of a molecular cloud has found that the organic chemical makeup of protostars varies considerably.
Aug 24th, 2018
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