Astrophysics

Findings have implications for understanding our place in the universeCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Matthew Burgos Worcester, Mass. - Sept. 22, 2020 - Using a limited set of mathematical equations, Worcester Polytechnic…

Between relativistic and classical wave regimes, newly discovered memory effect alters the Doppler wave signatureCredit: Kozlov et al. Wave scattering appears practically everywhere in everyday life--from conversations across rooms, to…

Scientists analyze sunquakes to pinpoint flare energy source, perhaps predict flare severityCredit: UC Berkeley graphic by Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged…

Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has joined a new NASA space mission to the far side of the Moon to…

Astrophysicists at the University of Jena (Germany) prove that dust particles in space are mixed with iceCredit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & Frédérique Motte, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/Irfu - CNRS/INSU - Univ. Paris…

Credit: Image by IHEP Insight-HXMT, China's first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) above 200 kiloelectron volts (keV) in a black hole binary, making it the highest…

Credit: NASA Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems. The study tracked the…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets -- bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to…

The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable. In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a "pi Earth" -- an Earth-sized planet that zips around its star…

Credit: Srimanta Banerjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Marat Gilfanov An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event horizon, unmistakably separating them from neutron stars -- objects,…

Work may help determine source of Fast Radio Bursts Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made the first direct geometric measurement of the distance to a magnetar within our Milky Way…

Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest installment of the journal BioScience's In Their Own Words oral history series,…

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured…

Physicists at Goethe University lead one of the technical refurbishments of "ALICE" for researching quark-gluon plasmaCredit: Robert Münzer FRANKFURT. For the moment, the accelerators at CERN are at rest during the "second long…

New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted a memorable Symposium at UCLA, on "The Origin and Evolution of the Universe". It…

ITHACA, N.Y. - When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core - a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its star, according to Cornell…

One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding of the universe at first lightCredit: Giant Magellan Telescope - GMTO…

Astronomers detect first-of-its-kind exoplanet around dead starCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf…

Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker…

Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar systemCredit: © Sano et al. Around 4 billion years ago, the solar system was far less hospitable than we find it now. Many of the large bodies we know and love…