The new Willard L. Eccles Observatory’s 32-inch reflecting telescope took its first pictures the night of Oct. 15. The “first light” photo is an edge-on view…
Heinke and a colleague have identified the 20 kilometre-wide remnant of the supernova as a neutron star. It's the youngest neutron star ever identified, and…
This will be the third Earth swingby, the last of Rosetta’s four planetary gravity assists. Closest approach to Earth is expected at 08:45 CET (07:45 UT). The…
The discovery has just been published by the journal Nature. The study reports that researchers using the VERITAS array of four telescopes at the Fred Lawrence…
The gamma rays observed by the team have energies more than a trillion times higher than the energy of visible light and are the highest-energy photons ever…
“Starburst galaxies have not been accessible in gamma rays before,” said Fermi team member Seth Digel, a physicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in…
The experiment was performed by a team that includes astrophysicists at Penn State University, who used NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope to study…
Thirty years ago, theorists John Dawson and Toshiki Tajima proposed an idea for making them thousands of times smaller: surf the particles on plasma waves…
Suggesting that atoms in a solid can move or be transported through it seems as impossible as using a syringe to inject material into a billiard ball. It…
Along with the neutron, the proton is the basic building block of the atomic nucleus. But, the source of the proton’s spin—a fundamental property, along with…
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first…
New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor.Sinova and…
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant…
SMOS, ESA's water mission, is the first satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and monitor soil moisture on a global scale, thus contributing to…
Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the…
For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing…
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