Astrophysics

Credit: @tsarcyanide, MIPT Press Office Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron…

New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon's icy surfaceCredit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team Washington, DC-- Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest…

Scientists may have figured out the origins of planetsCredit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser and Felix Jungmann Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a…

Credit: NAOC Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University have found a special population of dwarf galaxies that could mainly consist…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or…

HZDR scientists want to use quantum mechanics to trigger the fusion of atomic nucleiCredit: DESY Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems…

Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE), and…

Technology 'squeezes' out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detectedCredit: Image: Maggie Tse Just a year ago, the National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or…

ITHACA, N.Y. - A Cornell University senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide. Zifan Lin has developed high-resolution spectral models and scenarios for…

Credit: (U.S. Navy/Released) WASHINGTON -- Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's camera on NASA's latest mission to study the Sun's corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined. NRL's…