astronomy
25/04/2024 - 18:09
But the researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science learned about the supernova as it was taking place on a Friday evening... →
06/12/2023 - 14:30
The creation of our own solar system was a violent process. As planets were forming some crashed into each other, disturbing orbits and... →
24/12/2020 - 13:20
The narrow beam of radio waves was picked up during 30 hours of observations by the Parkes telescope in Australia in April and May last... →
06/02/2020 - 16:15
Dark matter is the elusive stuff in the Universe that interacts through gravity like ordinary matter, but doesn’t emit or absorb light.... →
04/12/2019 - 15:53
These thoughts circle in my brain as I pad downstairs for that first cup of something warm. The news that awaits me there will be in watts... →
15/06/2019 - 12:42
Before Hawking’s talk, all cosmological origin stories, scientific or theological, had invited the rejoinder, “What happened before that?”... →
04/02/2019 - 19:20
The following October, Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, co-wrote a paper (with a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, Shmuel... →
30/09/2016 - 14:21
What he does have in mind is the future of human space exploration. In a decade or so, the International Space Station will be done with.... →
27/08/2016 - 13:20
Like many exoplanets, Proxima b was observed indirectly, but convincingly, through its gravitational sway. As the planet orbits, it tugs... →
31/01/2016 - 12:57
Mathematical calculations on four other tablets show that the Babylonians realized that the area under the curve on such a graph... →
23/01/2016 - 14:08
Outside scientists say their calculations stack up and express a mixture of caution and excitement about the result. “I could not imagine a... →
03/01/2016 - 16:31
Earth-sized world
Since surface gravity depends on the star's mass and radius, the method should also help astronomers work out the masses... →