Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara) Astronomers have caught a rare look at a rapidly fading shroud of gas…
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Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA The world's largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of…
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Credit: University of Copenhagen Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen have, in collaboration with Norwegian researchers in the ERC Synergy project, ICE2ICE, shown that abrupt climate change occurred as a…
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New clues lead to a better understanding of the evolution of the solar system and the origin of Earth as a habitable planetCredit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw In a new paper published in the journal…
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Neutrinos produced by the CNO cycle within the core of the sun are being hunted by the Borexino experiment so that we may learn more about this important nuclear process Neutrinos are chargeless particles with about a mass about a…
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Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara) Astronomers have caught a rare glimpse of a rapidly fading shroud of gas…
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Credit: Sergio Ruiz-Bonilla Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists led…
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Credit: (ESA and Gaia DPAC) The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by Finnish…
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Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO What is Gaia? The aim of the ESA mission, launched on December 19, 2013, is nothing less than to produce a three-dimensional map of all astronomical objects that can be detected by the satellite's…
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Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC On 3 December an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar positions, movement, brightness…
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Christopher Edwards joins multi-institutional team led by Caltech to design and build instrumentation for satellite to study the Moon's water cycle and make critical basemaps After a year of preliminary design and several reviews, NASA…
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Credit: RUDN University A specialist in spacecraft movement control analyzed the process of placing vehicle stages, boosters, and other space debris into the so-called disposal orbit and suggested cleaning lower orbits up with a…
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Credit: Kavli IPMU The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery--one that physicists have sought to measure since discovering the…
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Credit: Kavli IPMU A team of researchers led by members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has analyzed previously collected data to infer the true nature of a compact object--found…
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Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba devise a new approach to show how ghost-like neutrinos helped shape the UniverseCredit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact…
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