Astrophysics

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Credit: NASA/ESA/Bruce Balick/Martín Guerrero/Gerardo Ramos-Larios Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make slow transitions -- sometimes over many millions of years -- between the…

The results should help scientists study the viscosity in neutron stars, the plasma of the early universe, and other strongly interacting fluids.Credit: Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT For some, the sound of a "perfect flow" might be…

Survey of the sky pushes the boundaries of what we know about the structure of our galaxyCredit: Cardiff University Scientists from Cardiff University have helped produce a brand-new, three-dimensional survey of our galaxy, allowing them…

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…

Physicists report accelerated electrons linked with cosmic raysCredit: NASA/JPL More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries. In a new study, a team of physicists led by the…

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…

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…

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…

Credit: Y. Minami / KEK Using Planck data from the cosmic microwave background radiation, an international team of researchers has observed a hint of new physics. The team developed a new method to measure the polarization angle of…

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…

Borexino detector succeeds in measuring the sun's CNO fusion cycleCredit: Borexino Collaboration After the scientists of the Borexino experiment succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the sun's proton-proton chain in 2014,…

An international study led from the University of Turku, Finland, discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. The finding indicates that all the most important elements necessary for life may have…

Giant planets that developed early in a star system's life could solve a mystery of why spiral structures are not observed in young protoplanetary discs, according to a new study by University of Warwick astronomers.Credit: University of…

Credit: NASA LAWRENCE -- Researchers from the University of Kansas have described a galaxy more than 5.25 billion light years away undergoing a rarely seen stage in its galactic life cycle. Their findings recently were published in…

What causes the weathering of the Mars moon Phobos? Results from TU Wien give new insights, soon a spacecraft will retrieve soil samples.Credit: TU Wien Of course, there is no weather in our sense of the word in space -…