A new publication led by Yale Applied Physics graduate student Jiaxiang Wang in “Physical Review Letters” called “Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays” explains the result. Other members of the group who contributed to…
Category: Astronomy
Using small black holes to find big black holes
Scientists have developed a new method for detecting supermassive binary black holes, pairs of the largest kind of black holes in the Universe and located at the very centre of…
Newborn moon may have had many mini-siblings in Earth orbit long ago
When Earth and our moon were much closer together than they are now, the duo could have had tiny companions, or a disk revolving around them in orbits around the…
NASA moon probe plays laser tag with Japanese lunar lander
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on…
Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere
The barely-there lunar atmosphere is likely the product of meteorite impacts over billions of years, a new study finds. While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a…
Webb images new, cold exoplanet 12 light-years away
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. While there were hints that the planet existed,…
Super-Jupiter – Technology Org
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple…
Sunrise III: Data storage recovered
Following the landing of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III in the Canadian Northwest Territories, the recovery team has now reached the landing site. Sunrise III has touched down in…
Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter. The two…
Researchers explore the effects of stellar magnetism on potential habitability of exoplanets
Interest in Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zone of their host stars has surged, driven by the quest to discover life beyond our solar system. But the habitability of…
