29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
A massive rotating ring of organic molecules, with a radius 50 times wider than the Earth’s orbit, has been detected around a Solar-type protostar, showing that interstellar organic materials are being fed into a rotating disk structure that ...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... most likely made of silicate, iron, and other interstellar matter. Due to their triple-layer appearance, the research team has described the accretion disk as very similar to a hamburger. The complete study of the accretion disk...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
Using the positions of supermassive black holes, astronomers have created a precise map of the expansion of the Universe over the last 10 billion years. The map, created by an international collaboration of scientists using the Sloan Digital Sky ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... should be rocky and full of water? Well, sort of, say the team whose lead author on the recent research paper is Dr Li Zeng from Harvard University. From the data, the team found another division between planets...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... coma abundances represent the bulk composition of volatiles in 2I/ Borisov’s nucleus write Cordiner and colleagues in their research paper, “the detection of HCN and CO emission from the first confirmed, active interstellar comet represents a major...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
.... It will dramatically lower prices and create more frequent access to space by several orders of magnitude. It will allow researchers to fly with their experiments — further lowering the complexity, risk, and cost of those very experiments. At World...
