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 ...
01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
... universe is encoded!” said Professor Kostas Skenderis from the University of Southampton, UK and one of the members of the research team who have recently submitted their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters. Sketch of timeline of the...
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 ...
08 November 2017
Boeing and CASIS award $500,000 for microgravity research on ISS
... synthesis and bioprocessing reactions. "Our goal with independent research-and-development projects such as these is to maximise...Earth for years to come,” said Scott Copeland, Research Integration lead for Boeing’s International Space Station program...
