15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
... science they'll get to perform while aboard: projects that will span human research, biology and biotechnology, astrophysics research. Peake particularly called out a medical research task, where they will grow crystals from disease...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... compact massive object is a black hole,” said Oka, the lead author of the paper that appeared in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Black holes can be roughly categorised into two different sizes: stellar-mass black holes...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
using the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Xin-glong Station, and Australian Astronomical Observatory. The central star known as HD 47366 is larger than ...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... now developing a 4,000-pixel microcalorimeter array for the European-led Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics mission, expected to launch late next decade. ASTRO-H has been built by a major international collaboration led by JAXA...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... diversity of small rocky planets, models recently constructed by researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA), suggest that the answer is apparently yes. Using a computer model known as the Preliminary Reference...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... but consistent with the direction of GW150914 and does not appear connected with other previously known astrophysical, solar, terrestrial, or magnetospheric activity. A number of possibilities to account for this GRB have already been undertaken...
