astrophysics

NASA and Lockheed launched the Juno space probe in 2011 as part of the New Frontiers program. It entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4th, 2016, to peek beneath the planet's dense clouds. Now, in its extended mission, the probe is taking a…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been unlocking many mysteries, and now it's finding multiple galaxies that grew massive too soon after the Big Bang if the standard model of cosmology is to be believed. In a study published in …

Researchers at Flatiron Institute used artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate the mass of colossal clusters of galaxies. By adding a simple term to an existing equation, scientists can produce far better mass estimates than previously…

On March 29, 2023 (Beijing Time) at 2 am, the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and 40 research institutions worldwide released their discoveries on the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB 221009A)…

Scientists studying a nearby protostar discovered gaseous water in the star's circumstellar disk, supporting the theory that water on Earth is older than our Sun. The team used ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in…

The bright glow of rapidly orbiting gas has a unique flicker. In a recent paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers from Princeton University and the University of California Santa Barbara used this subtle flickering to…

The detection of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves is delivering insights into the development of the universe, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham. Gravitational waves that transverse the universe at the speed of…

Until now, 70 percent of the universe was thought to be composed of dark energy, aiding in its expansion at an ever-increasing rate. University of Copenhagen researchers disagree. They tested a model replacing dark energy with a dark matter…

Swansea University physicists, leading members of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, just published a paper in Nature demonstrating the laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The result is colder antimatter than was…

Dark matter, first proposed by Lord Kelvin in 1884 and named by Henri Poincaré in 1906, is undetectable by current astronomical instruments. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, we know dark matter must make up about 85% of…