In a review that was published this week, physicists argue that the time has come to broaden and diversify the experimental effort, and to incorporate astronomical surveys and gravitational wave observations in the quest for the nature of dark matter.
Oct 4th, 2018
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One of the weirdest objects in the Milky Way just got weirder. Scientists have discovered a new source of the highest-energy photons in the cosmos: a strange system known as a microquasar, located in our neck of the galaxy a neighborly 15,000 light years from Earth.
Oct 3rd, 2018
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Statistical analysis shows black holes can make up no more than 40 percent of dark matter.
Oct 2nd, 2018
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A 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
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New, three-dimensional simulations reveal the inner workings of one of the universe's most mysterious stars.
Sep 26th, 2018
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Equators of Sun-like stars rotate up to two and a half times as fast as higher latitudes, researchers have discovered.
Sep 20th, 2018
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Astronomers 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
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Position 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
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Astronauts 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
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Computer simulations of neutron stars could help better understand the possible sources of gravitational waves.
Sep 18th, 2018
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Cross-disciplinary team will track life-essential elements during planets' early evolution.
Sep 17th, 2018
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An 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
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As 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
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Machine learning algorithm also helps search for new kinds of signals from extraterrestrial intelligence.
Sep 10th, 2018
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Particle flow patterns suggest even small-scale collisions create drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma.
Sep 6th, 2018
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An 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
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Recent research indicates that the giant gas planet might contain many times more water than Earth.
Aug 30th, 2018
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Stellar association members could help astronomers understand the evolution of stars and the properties of future exoplanet discoveries.
Aug 28th, 2018
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