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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
What composes 70 percent of our universe?
Until now, 70 percent of the universe was thought to be composed of dark energy, aiding in its expansion at an…
CERN laser cools antimatter for the first time
Swansea University physicists, leading members of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, just published a paper in Nature…
Blame It on Jupiter: Venus Might Have Been Habitable Without Its Influence
Missions to Mars have been planned since the 1950s, when the concept of life on Mars first seemed to captivate the…
Auroral Beads Precede Space Substorms
Auroras, the disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind, are one of the most beautiful and easily…
Citizen Scientists Help Astronomers Find 100 Cool Brown Dwarfs
The power of many is increasingly being harnessed as scientists and citizen scientists work together to collect…
Researchers Measure 2017 Solar Flare’s Magnetic Fields
The Carrington Event of 1859 that disrupted telegraph communications globally is both the world’s best known solar…
Colliding Star May Have Caused Black Hole’s Corona to Disappear
Black holes, the regions in spacetime where gravity is so strong nothing can escape, have fascinated astronomers…
Newborn Particles Interact with Electromagnetic Fields to Create Pulsars
Pulsars, the radiation pulses emitted by rotating neutron stars at very regular intervals, have very strong…
Dark Matter Signals Might be Present in Particle Detector Data
Dark matter, first proposed by Lord Kelvin in 1884 and named by Henri Poincaré in 1906, is undetectable by current…
Tiny, More Powerful Particle Accelerators Possible with New Laser Technique
By observing electrons that have been accelerated to extremely high energies, scientists are able to unlock clues…