An Impossible Planet? The Story of Halla

Here’s a story of how an exoplanet named Halla survived the rebellion of its home star Baekdu. When stars, similar to the sun, have reached the end of their lifetime,…

Astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes

The NANOGrav team used a number of radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, to listen to pulsars for 15 years. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, CC BY An international…

IceCube: Milky Way Galaxy is Neutrino Desert

The Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, dominating all wavelengths of light and viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching…

Sun releases strong solar flare

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare—as seen in the bright flash on the top right area of the sun—on July 2, 2023. The image shows…

Collaborative research detects nanojets with machine learning algorithms

Northumbria PhD student Ramada Sukarmadji. Credit: Simon Veit-Wilson/Northumbria University A mystery that has baffled astronomers and physicists for decades is a step closer to being solved thanks to a collaboration…

After 15 Years, Evidence of Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background

The universe is humming with gravitational radiation — a very low-frequency rumble that rhythmically stretches and compresses spacetime and the matter embedded in it. Artist’s interpretation of an array of…

Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe

This undated photo provided by researchers in June 2023 shows the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. This and several other telescopes around the world were used to observe the slow…

Europe’s space telescope launches to target universe’s dark mysteries

The Euclid spacecraft, pictured before being sent to Florida, will blast off on a mission to find out more about the ‘dark universe’ Europe’s Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday…

Possible ‘Fingerprints’ of Gravitational Waves Found

Astronomers using data collected by CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, have found their strongest evidence yet for low-frequency gravitational waves. CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, Murriyang, on Wiradjuri Country. Image credit:…

NASA Goddard acoustics chamber and US marine band turn up the volume

Col. Jason Fettig leads “The President’s Own” Marine Band in a performance inside the acoustic test chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 3. Credit:…