July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...the Big Bang. Observations of the Hydroxide molecules in a cloud surrounding a distant quasar show that the fine structure constant...a “gamma-ray heartbeat” coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The cloud is in the constellation Aquilla and “beats” in rhythm...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... that reported discoveries can sometimes spiral out of control. If you look back at the announcement of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, which occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 30,000 viewers - a significant audience for a scientific...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... may be lurking in the Milky Way have been uncovered by a team of astronomers who have detected an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, that is observed to have gas with a very wide range of speeds. This wide velocity dispersion is suggestive...
17 May 2019
First science results released on Ultima Thule
... evidence of an atmosphere, or any moons, rings or dust clouds were found orbiting this huge, cold distant relic from the early ...planestimals. This type of process is called a pebble cloud collapse model and Stern and colleagues suggest that Ultima’s...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... and nighttime. Because of the characteristics of the microwave frequency, AMSR2 can measure sea surface temperature through clouds, which is critical data for maritime forecasting and climate change research. The improved spatial resolution with...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...device and its surroundings, creating a rapidly expanding cloud of superhot radioactive plasma. In short: bright ...Belt Objects (EKBOs) known by now. The Oort Cloud is a notionally spherical cloud of small bodies that orbit the Sun within interstellar ...
