01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... of Maryland and a co-author of the Nature paper. "But we can understand it if the Earth had a more dramatic early history than we previously suspected." This new model proposed by Stewart and colleagues suggests that a similar impact occurred...
30 August 2017
Star formation history of the Universe revealed
The discovery of a molecule that sheds new light on how galaxies extend their period of rapid star formation has been found for the first time in the distant Universe by astronomers using ALMA. The simple molecule is carbon hydride (CH+); one of the...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... to learn more about the nature of dark energy while probing even more deeply into the expansion history of the Universe. Study co-author Bob Nichol, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth, commented: "Such supernovae were...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship has made history with her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the ...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... such a scenario, scientists still can’t agree on whether a martian northern ocean existed or not in the planet’s early history. Hoping to provide more conclusive evidence Costard and colleagues plan to examine the crater further using images...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... in signing the end of the cosmic dark ages, the EoR is one of the least understood epochs in the history of the Universe because the first stars also significantly altered the chemical makeup of the cosmos. Peering...
