11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
...amongst other things, help pinpoint the location of the gravitational wave event. Now, an international team of researchers have submitted a... Kerr-Newman black hole. When the first gravitational wave event detected by LIGO (GW150194) hit the headlines...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... the aurora's morphology and dynamics." And if this first wave of images isn’t enough to satisfy curious observers, then ...rather listen to its radio emissions. The radio/plasma wave experiment (Waves) was also fired up to record ghostly-sounding ...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
... are caused by the sudden release of energy transmitted as seismic waves and there are at least four different kinds of them on...felt by those stood on the lunar surface when the waves rippled beneath their feet, the epicentre locations of these quakes...
February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
... is determined for a hypothetical equivalent point explosion, the shock waves from which correspond to a prolonged blast. The method used ... approximately 200 km. Loss of human life from the blast wave will be about three to four times less than that ...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... more stable - latitude. It goes without saying that it is an exciting prospect as to whether we’ll see further evidence of such polygonal waves and polar cyclones on the other giants of our solar system. Planet-encircling storms Many of the north...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
...years ago, a big meteorite impact triggered the first tsunami wave. This wave was composed of liquid water. It formed widespread backwash ...have been quite literally washed away by larger waves. Nonetheless there are additional signs that could ...
