STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Oct 13, 2023 (SPX)

When a high energy cosmic ray collides with the Earth's atmosphere, it generates an enormous number of particles known as an extensive air shower. A research te...

JWST uncovers the smallest stars in our Galaxy and helps solving star cluster mystery

Oct 13, 2023 (SPX)

As building blocks of galaxies, star clusters play a pivotal role in their formation and evolution, yet much about their origin remains shrouded in mystery. One...

China announces plan to build world's largest deep-sea neutrino telescope

Oct 12, 2023 (XNA)

The project, called "Trident", is expected to be completed in 2030 and will be used to study the universe's most extreme phenomena, such as supernova explosions...

Starquakes could explain mystery signals

Oct 12, 2023 (SPX)

However, new research at the University of Tokyo has looked at the time and energy of FRBs and found distinct differences between FRBs and solar flares, but sev...

Finding explanation for Milky Way's warp

Oct 11, 2023 (SPX)

Though scientists have long known through observational data that the Milky Way is warped and its edges are flared like a skirt, no one could explain why. Now, ...

Pulsars may make dark matter glow

Oct 09, 2023 (SPX)

Dark matter may be the most sought-for constituent of our universe. Surprisingly, this mysterious form of matter, that physicist and astronomers so far have not...

Seeking Euclid's hidden stars: commissioning looks up

Sep 27, 2023 (ESA)

From Euclid's fine guidance sensors intermittently losing track of stars to stray sunlight getting in the way of observing the Universe and X-rays appearing in ...

Chandra rewinds story of Great Eruption of the 1840s

Sep 27, 2023 (SPX)

In the middle of the 19th century, skywatchers observed as Eta Carinae experienced a huge explosion that was dubbed the "Great Eruption." During this event, Eta...

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe passes system integration review

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

The IMAP team met with a review panel to evaluate the plan for integrating all systems onto the spacecraft, such as the scientific instrumentation, electrical a...

Material would allow users to 'tune' windows to block targeted wavelengths of light

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

Dynamic windows based on electrochromism - meaning their opacity changes in response to electric stimulus - are not a new concept. But, to this point, most dyna...

Shh! Quiet cables set to help reveal rare physics events

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

Around the world more than a dozen teams are listening for the pops and electronic sizzle that might mean they have finally tuned into the right channel. These ...

China releases first image captured by new wide-field survey telescope

Sep 23, 2023 (XNA)

Developed by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Wide Field Survey ...

The limits of nuclear stability change in stellar environments

Sep 23, 2023 (SPX)

The nuclear chart is a way to map out different kinds of atomic nuclei based on their number of protons and neutrons, and the "drip lines" can be viewed as the ...

New clues to the nature of elusive dark matter

Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)

"Dark matter makes up 84 per cent of the matter in the universe but we know very little about it," said Professor Anthony Thomas, Elder Professor of Physics, Un...

RIT collaboration with global team confirms, disproves distant galaxies

Sep 18, 2023 (SPX)

Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and Rebecca Larson, postdoctoral research associate, co-authored a paper, "Confir...

Primary Instrument for NASA's Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)

"The year-long integration effort culminates in the instrument's first baseline performance testing, where we turn on the instrument to ensure it's working as e...

NASA gears up for its next giant space telescope

Sep 11, 2023 (SPX)

"Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s," undertaken by the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020) Steering Co...

New cosmological constraints on the nature of dark matter

Sep 11, 2023 (SPX)

Mysterious dark matter accounts for most of the matter in the Universe. Dark matter is invisible and makes itself know only through its gravitational effects. D...

Closing in on the elusive neutrino

Sep 08, 2023 (SPX)

Now, an international team of researchers from the United States and Germany leading an ambitious quest called Project 8 reports that their distinctive strategy...

Furthest ever detection of a galaxy's magnetic field

Sep 08, 2023 (SPX)

Lots of astronomical bodies in the Universe have magnetic fields, whether it be planets, stars or galaxies. "Many people might not be aware that our entire gala...