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Astronomers find 72 bright and fast explosions

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

The scientists found the transients in data from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme (DES-SN). This is part of a global effort to understand dark energy,...

Diffractionless Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

This architecture dramatically increases the distance over which the spacecraft is accelerated (compared with laser propulsion) while simultaneously reducing th...

Is the Milky Way getting bigger?

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

The Solar System is located in one of the arms in the disc of a barred spiral galaxy we call the Milky Way, with a diameter of about 100,000 light years. Our ho...

Most distant star yet discovered by Hubble

Apr 02, 2018 (UPI)

Astronomers were trying to watch a gravitationally lensed supernova called Refsdal in the distant universe when they noticed an unexpected point source. The sou...

A Runaway Star in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)

The runaway star (designated J01020100-7122208) is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor of the Milky Way Galaxy, and is believed to have once...

NASA's Webb Observatory requires more time for testing and evaluation

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

"Webb is the highest priority project for the agency's Science Mission Directorate, and the largest international space science project in U.S. history. All the...

Supernova may have 'burped' before exploding

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

Only by increasing the rate at which telescopes monitor the sky has it been possible to catch more Fast-Evolving Luminous Transients (FELTs) and begin to unders...

Dark matter goes missing in oddball galaxy

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

Therefore, researchers were surprised when they uncovered a galaxy that is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. An invisible substance, dark matter is ...

How do you make a galaxy without dark matter

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

Also, it is generally accepted that galaxies first formed from concentrations of dark matter that act like "galaxy starters." They gravitationally attract ordin...

Scientists stunned by discovery of galaxy without dark matter

Mar 28, 2018 (UPI)

Now, for the first time, scientists have found a galaxy without dark matter -- NGC1052-DF2's dark matter is missing. When astronomers first found the dark matte...

NASA pushes back giant space telescope launch to 2020

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

The James Webb Space Telescope -- which NASA has long expected to replace the fabled Hubble -- was initially meant to go into service this year but has faced mu...

Increasing temperatures in cooling systems

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

Their research adds further detail to Haff's law (devised 35 years ago), which states that the granular temperature in closed systems continually decreases. The...

Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

Mar 26, 2018 (SPX)

With colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute and other institutions, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used the Hubble Space Telesc...

Hubble solves cosmic 'whodunit' with interstellar forensics

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

The players are two dwarf galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, both of which orbit our own Milky Way Galaxy. But as they go arou...

The search for dark matter widens

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

This unknown mass is known as dark matter. Ordinary matter makes up only 5 percent of all content in the universe, whereas dark matter constitutes more than 25 ...

Beyond the WIMP: Unique crystals could expand the search for dark matter

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

While several large physics experiments have been targeting theorized dark matter particles called WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, the new detec...

Scientists invented method of catching bacteria with 'photonic hook'

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

For the longest time, physicists claimed that electromagnetic radiation propagates along a straight line; however, in 2007 the existence of a curved electromagn...

Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation yet

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

However, the vastness of our galaxy - let alone our entire universe - means experiments to understand our origins are expensive, difficult, and time consuming. ...

UH scientists investigating mysterious dark matter

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

"If we are the experiment that finds dark matter, we can change the fundamental understanding of the universe as we know it," said UH assistant professor Andrew...

James Webb Observatory prepares for additional testing

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

Northrop is the final step of Webb's journey before it travels to its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. Engineers will conduct final testing at the facility...