NASA selects proposals to study volatile stars, galaxies, cosmic collisions NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well as monitor how nearby stellar […]
Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web A computational approach inspired by the growth patterns of a bright yellow slime mold has enabled a team of astronomers and computer […]
Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world’s earliest human settlements Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site […]
The cosmic confusion of the microwave background Roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, matter (mostly hydrogen) cooled enough for neutral atoms to form, and light was able to traverse […]
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance An international team of astrophysicists led by Australian Professor Matthew Bailes, from the ARC Centre of Excellence of Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has shown exciting […]
Famous black hole has jet pushing cosmic speed limit The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole with observations of the massive, dark object at the center of Messier 87, […]