In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material. In a new Nature Astronomy study, an international team led by astrophysicists from the University…
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Dude, what if everything around us was just … a hologram? The thing is, it could be—and a University of Michigan physicist is using quantum…
The Cosmic Microwave Background (left) was released 380,000 years after the Big Bang, and it acts as a background to all galaxies in the Universe.…
A study by the University of Bonn: Observations fit poorly with the Standard Model of Cosmology. The Standard Model of Cosmology describes how the universe…
Dr. Serge Krasnokutski studies the formation of biomolecules at low temperature in a vacuum. Credit: Jens Meyer/University of Jena Research team from Friedrich Schiller University…
Illustration of two orbiting black holes warping spacetime and generating gravitational waves. Published in Nature Astronomy the work which shows the unprecedented accuracyHow close the…
Scientists including MITMIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded…
It can stretch your mind to ponder what’s really out there. Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the…
Illustration of the faint fuel reservoirs that surround galaxies, allowing them to form new stars and planetary systems. Credit: Shireen Dooling/ASU Most galaxies, including our…
Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk. When the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a…
Warps Drive Disruptions in Planet Formation Through Gravitational Instability in Young Solar Systems
The impact of a warp as it wipes out the spiral structure of a protoplanetary disc. Credit: University of Warwick A new study from the…
Artist’s depiction of the star EK Draconis ejecting a coronal mass ejection as two planets orbit. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan In the search…
To understand how life emerged, scientists investigate the chemistry of carbon and water. In the case of water, they track the various forms, or isotopes,…
An artist’s rendition of a red supergiant star transitioning into a Type II supernova, emitting a violent eruption of radiation and gas on its dying…
Laniakea Supercluster superimposed on orbits and surfaces of mass density. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see…
Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star ever seen. Now, astronomers have…
Einstein was no stranger to mathematical challenges. He struggled to define energy in a way that acknowledged both the law of energy conservation and covariance,…
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator How NASA in Silicon Valley Will…
Giant Magellan Telescope. Credit: GMTO Corporation The U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program, which includes the Giant Magellan Telescope, was ranked mission critical by the 2020…
A top-down view of a black hole during the lead-up to a flare. Hot plasma initially flows into the black hole. As the magnetic field…