New research has revealed the first evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming discs, leaving it warped and with tilted rings.
An...
Professor Kinwah Wu from University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory discusses high-precision astrophysics in the context of multi-messenger studies of gravitational radiation sources...
Joey Shapiro Key, an Assistant Professor at University of Washington Bothell, looks at the advent of multi-messenger astronomy and the role that gravitational wave...
Mathieu de Naurois, H.E.S.S. Deputy Director at CNRS, outlines the use of the H.E.S.S. telescopes in detecting the kiloparsec-sized VHE gamma-ray emission of Centaurus...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has published a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe, revealing that six billion years...
Professor Philippe Jetzer, who leads the Gravitation and Astrophysics Group at the University of Zurich (UZH), discusses gravitational waves and ways to test General...
A team of researchers, led by astrophysicists at Arizona State University (ASU), has determined that nova explosions are responsible for most of the lithium...
An international team of astronomers have discovered the existence of an Earth-like planet orbiting the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri.
As published...
The European Union has funded a new design study of the world's largest sub-millimetre astronomical telescope.
The study, named Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter...
Using infrared interferometry, astronomers have successfully captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming disks.
Discovered by an international team of researchers, these planet-forming...
A team of researchers, based in Japan, have successfully mapped three nearby interstellar gas clouds, improving our understanding of how stars form.
Researchers have successfully...
Associate director of CIERA at Northwestern University Shane Larson explores the role of globular star clusters within the Universe.
The modern scientific enterprise is one...