Astronomy

Astrophysics

Worlds like ours

New spectrographs should permit the discovery of planets that are Earth twins

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PHYSICS

The origin of cosmic rays

Ultra-high-energy particles come from outside the Milky Way

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PHYSICS

Prize-winning gravitational waves

Prize-winning gravitational waves

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Robert Myers

Robert Myers: A cataloger of the Cosmos

Physicist explains why it is so difficult to describe the Universe

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radio telescope

A telescope in the scrublands

Difficulties are preventing the possibility of building Bingo in Uruguay

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astronomy

A new source of gravitational waves?

LIGO reportedly detected a new type of gravitational wave

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ASTROPHYSICS

The difference that equalizes the Sun and its sister stars

Chaotic plasma behavior helps explain the magnetic cycle of solar analog stars

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Nicholas Suntzeff

Nicholas Suntzeff: Observer of the distant universe

Researcher measures the distance of galaxies at the edge of the universe

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Astronomy

The smallest possible star

Celestial object known as EBLM J0555-57Ab is the smallest star ever identified

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PHYSICS

Astrophysics in the bathtub

Water tank experiment reproduces phenomena that could occur near black holes

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astronomy

A new era for astrophysics

The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star collision

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ASTROPHYSICS

A revealing collision

Gravitational waves confirm the existence of a new population of black holes

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Thaisa Storchi Bergmann

Thaisa Storchi Bergmann: The neighborhood of black holes

Astrophysicist focuses on how black holes get their energy

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Astronomy

Australia enters partnership with ESO

Australia enters partnership with ESO

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Pico dos Dias Observatory

A telescope to monitor space debris

Telescope in Minas Gerais State will be used to monitor space debris

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ASTRONOMY

Hard and lifeless

The crusts of some rocky exoplanets may be too rigid for them to be habitable

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SPANET

São Paulo Creates Astronomy Network

São Paulo Astronomy Network wants to unite astrophysicists

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ASTRONOMY

The cost of shining so brightly

The emission of particles extracts energy from the Sun’s outermost layer

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OBITUARY

Listening to the stars

Pierre Kaufmann was one of the pioneers of radio astronomy in Brazil

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Astronomy

Seven exoplanets and a star

Seven exoplanets in the orbit of the TRAPPIST-1 star

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Physics

Bathtub astrophysics

Experiment replays phenomenon which may occur near black holes

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COSMOLOGY

Waves of material from the early Universe

Radio telescope will study phenomena that occurred shortly after the Big Bang

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Astronomy

Hubble constant recalculated

Researchers calculate a new value for the Hubble constant

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Vela supercluster

The Milky Way’s gigantic neighbor

One of the largest superclusters of galaxies has been discovered

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GALILEO

The European GPS is coming

The new european GPS system should be running on November

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Pierre Auger Observatory

More muons than predicted by the LHC

Up to 60% more muons detected in cosmic-ray shower

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Astronomy

In the heart of Eta Carinae

Astrophysicists observed Eta Carinae at an unprecedented level of detail

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Schiaparelli

Lost on Mars

ESA's vehicle sent to Mars crashed onto its surface

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ASTRONOMY

Titan’s landscape

Methane creates canyons and lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon

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Astronomy

Detailed map of the Milky Way

ESA released preliminary data on the survey of stars in the Milky Way

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