27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
...who led the image analysis for the observations. "The discovery of this moon has given us an opportunity to study... to gravitationally hold onto a bright, icy crust. "This new discovery [of MK 2] opens a new chapter in comparative planetology in the...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... Array (IRAM NOEMA), and ESO's Very Large Telescope. Speaking about the importance of this record-breaking discovery, study co-author Alexis Finoguenov of the University of Helsinki in Finland said, “We think we're going to learn a lot about the...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
... as robust as previously thought, and that the data is more consistent with a constant rate of expansion instead. 'The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe led to the widespread acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
...an astronomer,” said lead author of the study Dr Mathew Smith, of the University of Southampton. ”As well as being a very exciting discovery in its own right, the extreme distance of DES16C2nm gives us a unique insight into the nature of SLSN.” Clues...
