With the advent of powerful new telescopes on the ground and in space, planetary astronomy has gone though an exciting development over the past decade. For…
This form of hydrogen, called deuterium, was created a few minutes after the Big Bang, but has been slowly destroyed as it is burned in stars and converted to…
The LMC is the second closest known satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, orbiting it roughly every 1.5 billion years. Earlier ground-based observations of such…
The lead author of the study to be published in Nature, Dr Andrea Cavalleri at the Oxford University Department of Physics, said: ‘We’ve all seen how a stick…
A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are…
While there is no formal definition of a 'sungrazing comet,' the term typically refers to the Kreutz-group comets, which have a perihelion distance of less…
“Such trends are predicted by models that take into account the diffusion of elements in a star”, said Andreas Korn, lead-author of the paper reporting the…
“This cratered terrain is similar in topography to near-side highlands,” says SMART-1 Project scientist Bernard Foing, “while the far-side equator bulge can…
It is generally known among seafarers that in normal waves you can suddenly stand eye to eye with 25- to 30-meter waves, so-called monster waves. Unlike a…
“The reason this result is so significant is that we need the Hubble constant to tell us the size of the Universe, its age, and how much matter it contains,”…
The finding – that the dimensionality and structure, and thus the catalytic activity, of gold nanoclusters changes as the thickness of their supporting…
Proba-3 will demonstrate the technologies required for formation flying of multiple spacecraft. An instrument to observe the solar corona is being used for the…
How life takes shape is a mystery. Butterfly or baby, cells organize themselves into tissues, tissues form organs, organs become organisms. Over and over,…
MetOp’s planned launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on a Soyuz/ST launcher, originally planned for 17 July, had to be called off after three consecutive attempts…
Astronomers will look at how the Sun and other stars vibrate like enormous musical instruments at an international conference in Sheffield next week (7-11…
SMART-1 was launched on 27 September 2003, and it reached the Moon in November 2004 after a long spiralling around Earth. In this phase, the spacecraft tested…
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