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NASA awards the short wave infra-red sensor chip assembly for WFIRST

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

Managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, WFIRST is fully-funded for Fiscal Year 2018. Work will continue on the mission in this tim...

Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, represent a key step forward in astrophysicists' understanding of the relationship between binary neutron st...

Mysterious IceCube event may be caused by a tau neutrino

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

"These neutrinos with their considerable energy are cosmic messengers we have never encountered before and it is extremely important that we understand exactly ...

Proof of dark matter in dwarf galaxies is refuted

Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)

Since the 70s, astronomers have been convinced that dark matter is the main component of the matter in the universe. The American astronomer Vera Rubin was the ...

Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop

Jun 19, 2018 (ESA)

This digital space exploration story starts with the Integrated Medium for Planetary Exploration (IMPEx), a collaborative project to create a common data hub fo...

New experiment to aid study of dark matter

Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)

In search of new insights into the nature of dark matter, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a new expe...

A new experiment to understand dark matter

Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a new experiment that makes use of super-dense stars to learn more a...

A New Experiment to Understand Dark Matter

Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)

Around 1600, Galileo Galilei's experiments brought him to the conclusion that in the gravitational field of the Earth all bodies, independent of their mass and ...

New GAIA data reveals mergers in Milky Way

Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)

The study is based on the recent Gaia Data Release 2. This provided the astronomical community with accurate information on the position and movement of million...

Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei

Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)

A new analysis by researchers at UC Santa Cruz, published June 14 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains these and other puzzling featur...

SwRI: Technology Selected for NASA Mission to Map Solar System Boundary

Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)

IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a sort of magnetic bubble surrounding and protecting our solar system. This is whe...

Discovery in the sky with nanodiamonds

Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)

For decades scientists have been able to measure this 'glow' of microwave light, dubbed the anomalous microwave emission (AME), coming from a number of regions ...

Fermi x-ray telescope celebrates 10 years of discoveries

Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)

"Fermi's first 10 years have produced numerous scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the gamma-ray universe," said Paul Hertz, As...

Experiments trace interstellar dust back to solar system's formation

Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)

The initial solids from which the solar system formed consisted almost entirely of amorphous silicate, carbon and ices. This dust was mostly destroyed and rewor...

Nanodiamonds explain mysterious source of Milky Way microwaves

Jun 11, 2018 (UPI)

The shimmer is known as anomalous microwave emission, or AME. For decades, scientists have struggled to explain why the odd glow emanates from several of the ga...

Zerodur has been Schott's material answer for astronomy applications for 50 years

Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)

SCHOTT will supply the ELT with 798 ZERODUR blanks including spares to form its primary mirror out of 798 hexagonal tiles and will create its monolithic mirrors...

Local Galaxies Shed Light on Universe's First Stars

Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)

"Nearby galaxies are a fantastic and understudied laboratory - right in our own backyard - with which to study the early universe," said Aparna Venkatesan, asso...

The disc of the Milky Way is bigger than we thought

Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)

In our Galaxy we were not aware that there are stars in the disc at distances from the centre more than twice that of the Sun. This means that our own star was ...

Collisions Spray Heavy Elements Throughout Small Galaxies

Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)

The origin of the majority of the heaviest elements of the periodic table, including 95 percent of all gold on Earth, has been debated for decades. It is now kn...

Hubble spots most distant star ever observed

Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)

The discovery has also helped to test a new theory of dark matter and to study what clusters of galaxies are made of. The results of this study were published t...