Astrophysics

To become climate neutral by 2050, the European Union launched two ambitious programmes: "Green Deal" and "DigitalStrategy". As a key component of their successful implementation, climate scientists and computer scientists launched the…

Credit: ESO / L. Calçada A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that rather than the conventional formation scenarios…

Credit: Hai Fu, University of Iowa To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo gravitational collapse. The larger the galaxy, the more cold gas it needs to coalesce and to grow. Massive galaxies found in…

An international team of scientists proposes a new heavy particle with properties similar to those of the Higgs bosonCredit: university of granada Unlike the Higgs boson, discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012 after a…

Credit: INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo/Salvatore Orlando Since astronomers captured the bright explosion of a star on February 24, 1987, researchers have been searching for the squashed stellar core that should have…

Hebrew University finds first evidence of delayed radio flares after star is destroyed by black holeCredit: Hebrew University A team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) led by Dr. Assaf Horesh have discovered…

Credit: ICRAR, NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies. In research published today, astronomers have…

From a black hole to the South Pole: Scientists identify first neutrino from a tidal disruption eventCredit: Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Tracing back a ghostly particle to a shredded star, scientists have uncovered a…

Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino--a particularly elusive particle--in the wake of a star's destruction as it is consumed by a black hole. This…

Credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA's…

Credit: Francisco-Shu Kitaura (IAC). The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic structures. This new…

Credit: Felipe Pedreros Scientists of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS), the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS…

Gaia survey provides location and motion of 1.3 million binary pairs within 3,000 light years of EarthCredit: Animation by Jackie Faherity, AMNH, based on data by Kareem El-Badry, UC Berkeley The latest star data from the Gaia…

Credit: NAOJ Cooperative operations between a solar observation satellite and a sounding-rocket telescope have measured the magnetic field strength in the photosphere and chromosphere above an active solar plage region. This is the first…

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the outer layers of the solar atmosphere,…

Credit: © Tetyana Milojevic Early Mars is considered as an environment where life could possibly have existed. There was a time in the geological history of Mars when it could have been very similar to Earth and harbored life as we…

The latest observations from Insight-HXMT were published online in Nature Astronomy on Feb. 18. Insight-HXMT has discovered the very first X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and has identified that it originated from…

Credit: Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe's most mysterious objects. Published today in…

Just like in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the answer was 42Credit: Nelson Parker (www.nelsonskaihukauri.co.nz) The temporary breakdown of Earth's magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts that led to global…

Innovative program to bring NASA subject matter experts, research findings, and educational resources into science classrooms of community collegesCredit: NASA, Tallahassee Community College February 17, 2021, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI…