Astrophysics

Discovery could give insight into how and why jets are formed in gamma-ray burstsCredit: Kitty Yeung (art) and Tanmoy Laskar (animation) EVANSTON, Ill. -- An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized…

Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- When the shimmering hues of the aurora dance in the night sky, they illuminate for scientists a complex phenomenon: light is emitted when charged particles, ejected by the…

The polarisation signature reveals magnetic fields in the universe's most powerful explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than first thoughtCredit: Dr Kitty Yeung and Dr Tanmoy Laskar Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific…

International research team discovers two new Earth-like planets near Teegarden's starCredit: University of Göttingen, Institute for Astrophysics An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has discovered two new…

Credit: US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant of ancient dust from the early stages of the solar system inside a primitive meteorite, named La…

Credit: Simone Marchi The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching,…

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, was put in the same folded-up configuration that it will be in when mounted on…

Researchers are offering glimpses into the nature and composition of Saturn's legendary rings by using data from some of the closest observations ever made of the main rings ORLANDO, June 17, 2019 - Even though NASA's Cassini spacecraft's…

How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add meteors. Astronomers have long observed clouds in Mars' middle atmosphere, which begins about 18 miles (30 kilometers) above…

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Crenshaw and O. Fox When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos with bright, explosive bursts of light and material known as supernovae. A supernova event is incredibly…