Observing two black holes colliding has provided astronomers with a novel tool to measure black holes in distant galaxies.
How did researchers observe these two...
Analysing the type Ia supernovae has led scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research to discover how supernovae would evolve over thousands of...
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a way that a spacecraft can use pulsar star signals to navigate in space.
The remnants...
In a new study, scientists believe that another source of lunar water could involve the Earth’s magnetosphere.
Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s upper...
Researchers have identified and classified populations of similar exoplanet atmospheres in order to improve our knowledge of planetary formation.
An international team of researchers examined...
An international scientific group has managed to measure for the first-time oscillations in the brightness of a neutron star (magnetar) during its most violent...
At 13.5 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy candidate yet.
At a staggering distance of 13.5 billion light-years from Earth,...
A research team from University of Zurich (UZH) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) has utilised computer modelling systems to analyse...
A collaborative research team, led by Purdue University, has discovered that mounts of ice in craters provide a new insight into Mars’ climate history.
Newly...
Scientists working on the Borexino neutrino detector in Italy have shown that simultaneous measurements of low-energy solar neutrinos are possible.
Physicists measuring the properties of...
The Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics has revealed a simulation of the early Universe, which is described to look like fireflies flickering in the darkness.
The...
A research team from Lund University has mapped the movement of white dwarfs in the Milky Way, revealing information about these perplexing stars.
What is...