01 March 2017
Researchers find first evidence for rocky planet formation around double stars
... of their systems. The rocky material found by the researchers puts a new spin on what type of planets can...star systems,” said lead author, Dr Jay Farihi from UCL whose research is published in Nature Astronomy. "We know of thousands of binaries ...
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...
03 February 2020
Researchers discover "invisible" stars too dim to be seen
...thanks to a dedicated ground-based follow-up of tens of observers, including amateurs and school pupils that allowed an international research team led by Lukasz Wyrzykowski at the University of Poland, to work out what was going on. It turns out the...
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...
