03 March 2017
Dark Matter Map revealed by researchers
... within the clusters in exquisite detail," said Priyamvada Natarajan from Yale University, lead author of the recent research paper submitted in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "We have mapped all of the clumps...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
...order to try and understand what an exoplanet is made of, researchers need to measure both its radius and its mass, which ...three planets," said Sharon Wang, a co-author on the recent research paper detailing these results. "But they do seem like some...
14 March 2018
Researchers rethink quasar connection after new find
... galaxies. This apparently symbiotic relationship was a boon for researchers as quasars swiftly became the default object in which ...the HSC protoclusters. Hopefully, with those new observations researchers will be able to clarify the growth history of ...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... that the missing CO could be hidden away in a subsurface ocean. It would not be the first time though, that researchers have postulated that a subsurface ocean exists under Pluto’s icy crust. The jury is not out completely...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
... its atmosphere showed that it contained sodium. Previous research into large amounts of sodium emanating from an exoplanet, ...set-up might seem like a recipe for disaster, but research conducted by scientists at the University of Virginia in 2006 ...
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...
