Providing answers about its curious supreme brightness, researchers say the superluminous supernova SN 2006gy - one of the brightest stellar explosions ever studied, and discovered in 2006 - gained its exceptional luster when a normal…
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B…
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Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone 09S formed on Jan. 22 in the Southern Indian Ocean despite being affected by vertical wind shear and one day later, wind shear caused its demise. The end of 09S was caught by NASA's Aqua…
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Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating from the interior of the Earth. The elusive "ghost particles" rarely…
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Credit: ASTRO 3D Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding of the early years of the Universe, the development of galaxies, and what happens when they collide. For her pioneering investigations across theory, modelling and…
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Enceladus' subsurface ocean composition hints at habitable conditionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 22, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide…
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Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth's oldest asteroid strike occurred at Yarrabubba, in outback Western Australia, and coincided with the end of a global deep freeze known as a Snowball EarthCredit: Curtin University Curtin…
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Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM More than 30 years ago, the European comet mission Giotto flew past Halley's comet. The Bernese ion mass spectrometer IMS, led by Prof. em. Hans Balsiger, was on board. A key finding from the measurements…
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Credit: University of Rochester / John Tarduno Deep within Earth, swirling liquid iron generates our planet's protective magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is vital for life on Earth's surface: it shields the planet…
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Anny Cazenave initiated use of satellites to understand a key result of climate changeCredit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A scientist who has played a key role in documenting modern sea-level rise and its causes is to receive the 2020…
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Credit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Keith Matzen has been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates, a national nonprofit research and…
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New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial lifeCredit: NASA Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three…
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Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, and surprised…
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Innovation shown to speed design of composite deployable structuresCredit: Juan Fernandez/NASA WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its…
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Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather…
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