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Astronomers Witness Birth of Milky Way's Most Massive Star
July 10, 2013 Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from ... > full story -
Space-Time Is Not the Same for Everyone
July 9, 2013 Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by quantum gravity has been studied for ... > full story -
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry: Using the Sun to Illuminate a Basic Mystery of Matter
July 8, 2013 Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to researchers. The finding sheds light on the puzzling strong asymmetry between matter and antimatter by ... > full story -
Cosmic Dust Belts Without Dust
July 8, 2013 Planets and asteroids, red giants and brown dwarfs – there are all kinds of objects in our Universe. Debris disks are among them. These are belts consisting of countless dust particles and ... > full story -
Fit Check Sets Stage for Orion Recovery Test
July 7, 2013 Engineers and technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Langley Research Center in Virginia and Lockheed Martin Space Operations in Denver, Colo., prepared unique hardware that was used in a ... > full story -
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Network Launched
July 5, 2013 A network has been launched to promote academic research in the UK relating to the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence ... > full story -
New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury
July 5, 2013 Astronomers have studied the surface of Mercury to better understand if the plains were formed by volcanic flows or composed of material ejected from the planet's giant impact ... > full story -
Variation Between Hot Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres Revealed
July 5, 2013 First results from the analysis of eight 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets suggest that winds and clouds play an important role in the atmospheric make up of these exotic ... > full story -
Cosmic Radio Bursts Point to Cataclysmic Origins
July 5, 2013 Mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from billions of light years away have left the scientists who detected them speculating about their origins. The burst energetics indicate that they ... > full story -
Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight
July 5, 2013 Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. Gas is seen to fall inwards towards the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels star formation and drives the galaxy's ... > full story
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