Astrophysics

Credit: Courtesy Vaidehi Paliya CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet…

Groundbreaking research from Bath suggests the brightest source of energy in the universe is powered by the collapse of a dying star's magnetic field.Credit: Nuria Jordana-Mitjans When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses,…

NASA selected LargE Area burst Polarimeter mission for further developmentCredit: Southwest Research Institute/University of New Hampshire SAN ANTONIO -- April 7, 2020 -- NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute and the…

Credit: Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the…

Credit: (H. Palmer and K. Palmisano) By observing electrons that have been accelerated to extremely high energies, scientists are able to unlock clues about the particles that make up our universe. Accelerating electrons to such high…

Credit: Source: FUW Since its beginnings, quantum mechanics hasn't ceased to amaze us with its peculiarity, so difficult to understand. Why does one particle seem to pass through two slits simultaneously? Why instead of specific…

The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.Credit: Photo: Courtesy of CERN Columbia University will lead a team of scientists in…

Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the same configuration it will have when in space. As Webb progresses towards liftoff in 2021,…

Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this "intermediate-mass" black hole dwells…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by…

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory A long-held mystery in the field of nuclear physics is why the universe is composed of the specific materials we see around us. In other words, why is it made of "this" stuff and not other stuff?…

Direct experimental evidence for markedly enhanced surface proton activity inherent to water iceCredit: NINS/IMS Water ice is one of the most abundant solid substances in nature and hydrated protons on the ice surfaces…

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), K. T. Inoue et al. Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The…

Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia Rostomian and Nicholas Rodd/Berkeley Lab; and Christopher Dessert and Benjamin Safdi/University of Michigan …

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spectral templates for…

ANN ARBOR--Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don't know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and University of…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The single-cell organism known as slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) builds complex web-like filamentary networks in search of food, always finding near-optimal pathways to…

A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - The expansion of the Universe has occupied the minds of astronomers…

Northern Arizona University planetary scientist prepares for launch of James Webb Space TelescopeCredit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University Icy gas clouds found in deep space between stars are believed to be the birthplace of…

New simulation-based study supports contested 35-year-old predictions, shows that observable novae are just "tip of the iceberg" Almost 35 years ago, scientists made the then-radical proposal that colossal hydrogen bombs called novae go…