Hubble detects exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
Scientists have found the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on an enormous planet outside our solar system, with an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron.
Aug 3rd, 2017
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Running out of gas: Gas loss puts breaks on stellar baby boom
The stellar birthrate peaked around 10 billion years ago, and has declined steadily since then. However, the cause of the declining stellar birthrate is still not well understood.
Aug 2nd, 2017
Read moreMoon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes' (w/video)
Scientists have definitively detected the chemical acrylonitrile in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a place that has long intrigued scientists investigating the chemical precursors of life.
Jul 28th, 2017
Read moreAstrophysicists map out the light energy contained within the Milky Way
For the first time, a team of scientists have calculated the distribution of all light energy contained within the Milky Way, which will provide new insight into the make-up of our galaxy and how stars in spiral galaxies such as ours form.
Jul 28th, 2017
Read moreCosmologists produce new maps of dark matter dynamics
New maps of dark matter dynamics in the Universe have been produced by a team of international cosmologists.
Jul 25th, 2017
Read moreBooze in space: how the universe is absolutely drowning in the hard stuff
The universe is awash with alcohol. In the gas that occupies the space between the stars, the hard stuff is almost all-pervasive. What is it doing there? Is it time to send out some big rockets to start collecting it?
Jul 24th, 2017
Read moreFlashes of light on the dark matter
A web that passes through infinite intergalactic spaces, a dense cosmic forest illuminated by very distant lights and a huge enigma to solve. These are the picturesque ingredients of a scientific research that adds an important element for understanding one of the fundamental components of our Universe: the dark matter.
Jul 21st, 2017
Read moreHow do you work out if a signal from space is a message from aliens?
How do you work out if a strange signal from space really is a message from aliens? The simple answer is that you have to rule out everything else first and only then can you think it may be aliens.
Jul 18th, 2017
Read moreHow giant atoms may help catch gravitational waves from the Big Bang
A research group in the UK thinks that atoms may have an edge in detecting elusive, high-frequency gravitational waves.
Jul 17th, 2017
Read moreSix mysteries of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Despite the fact that the spot is so familiar to most of us, there's a lot that astronomers still don't understand about it. The new Juno observations may finally begin to unravel its mysteries.
Jul 13th, 2017
Read moreShedding light on galaxies' rotation secrets
Spiral galaxies are strongly rotating whereas the rotation velocity of ellipticals is much lower. A new study investigates the reasons of such a dichotomy revealing that it is imprinted at formation.
Jul 13th, 2017
Read moreComplex gas motion in the centre of the Milky Way
The comprehensive new model finally makes it possible to conclusively explain this complex gas motion.
Jul 13th, 2017
Read moreNew evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis
Astronomers have used a novel technique to analyse the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they point out that there is something perturbing them: a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-Sun separation.
Jul 12th, 2017
Read moreSpiky ferrofluid thrusters can move satellites
Researchers have created a new computational model of an electrospray thruster using ionic liquid ferrofluid - a promising technology for propelling small satellites through space.
Jul 11th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers track the birth of a 'super-earth'
'Synthetic observations' simulating nascent planetary systems could help explain a puzzle that has vexed astronomers for a long time.
Jul 11th, 2017
Read moreHeart of an exploded star observed in 3-D
Supernova forges billowing, tangled knots of new molecules.
Jul 10th, 2017
Read moreHidden lake discovery sheds light on alien hunt
Evidence of new strains of bacteria in a lake hidden under an Icelandic glacier far from the sun has revealed how life might thrive in sub-surface oceans on the icy moons around Saturn and Jupiter.
Jul 7th, 2017
Read moreHubble pushed beyond limits to spot clumps of new stars in distant galaxy
By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, astronomers have obtained images 10 times sharper than what Hubble could achieve on its own. The results show an edge-on disk galaxy studded with brilliant patches of newly formed stars.
Jul 6th, 2017
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