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Supernova Progenitor Found? New Research Identifies Star System That May Explode
August 3, 2012 — Type Ia supernovae are violent stellar explosions. Observations of their brightness are used to determine distances in the universe and have shown scientists that the cosmos is expanding at an ... > full story -
'Cry' of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity
August 2, 2012 — Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal ... > full story -
Theoretical Physicists Probe the Majorana Mystery
August 1, 2012 — Physicists close in on a subatomic particle that could enable the next generation of supercomputers and illuminate the inscrutability of cosmic dark ... > full story -
100 Years of Cosmic Rays Mystery
July 31, 2012 — Experts explain how physicists have gradually revealed the nature of cosmic rays and examines the progress being made in understanding where they come ... > full story -
Brightest Stars Don't Live Alone: Most Stellar Heavyweights Come in Interacting Pairs, VLT Finds
July 26, 2012 — A study using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has shown that most very bright high-mass stars do not live alone. Almost three quarters of them are found to have a close ... > full story -
Understanding Hot Nuclear Matter That Permeated the Early Universe
July 19, 2012 — A review article describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, synergies ... > full story -
A Wrinkle in Space-Time: Math Shows How Shockwaves Could Crinkle Space
July 19, 2012 — Mathematicians have come up with a new way to crinkle up the fabric of space-time -- at least in ... > full story -
Progress in Search for Neutrino-Less Double-Beta Decay of Xenon-136
July 19, 2012 — Physicists recently reported results of an experiment conducted in a salt mine one-half mile under Carlsbad, N.M., part of a decades-long search for evidence of the elusive neutrino-less double-beta ... > full story -
Astronomers Using the Hubble Space Telescope Report the Earliest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen
July 18, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered the first spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies ... > full story -
Riding the Plasma Wave: Evidence for a Type of Plasma Wave Moving Faster Than Theory Predicted
July 18, 2012 — Using data from the WAVES instrument on NASA's Wind mission, researchers have discovered evidence for a type of plasma wave moving faster than theory predicted it could move. The research suggests ... > full story
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