30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers are not quite claiming to have ... president of METI International (based in San Francisco), has said that his research group is ready to observe and monitor HD 164595 with the Boquete Optical...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
... for the accepted hypothesis that the Universe is rapidly expanding? Professor Sarkar is quick to note that this research may not overturn current theories overnight and that a lot of work will be necessary to convince the physics...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
... aid of Europe's fastest supercomputer at CSCS and nine months running time on hundreds to several thousands of computing cores, researchers show that a planets temperature could be the giveaway as to how they evolved. At present there are two main...
17 February 2017
Researchers suggest a new natural law can explain the rotation of galaxies
Researchers have found a radial acceleration relation amongst galaxies, ... outer stars should be flung away from their galaxies. To overcome this problem, researchers started to look for unseen matter to hold the galaxies together – a term that...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
...sources of information including simulations by Salvatore Orlando and collaborators at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy, and researchers from NASA, ESA, Penn State University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, amongst...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
... with some caveats attached. Using a specialist simulation programme, called Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software (OITS), three researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, based in the UK, have assessed the technical feasibility...