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...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... observations. Now however, further analysis of FRB 150418 by Williams and Berger at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has led to the suggestion that this signal is not as Keane and his team suggest, but that...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), a completely new window to investigate astrophysical processes, which are otherwise invisible to observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, has been opened. Now...