In our universe, things rarely stay really still, especially when it comes to rotating. The earth, of course, revolves around itself and then around the […]
500 million years of meteorite bombing mapped
Scientists have previously believed that the meteorite flow towards Earth was linked to dramatic collisions in the asteroid belt. But only one of the 70 […]
Extreme radiation outbreak in our neighborhood
At least two exoplanets “only” four light years away from Earth orbit their red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Should humanity ever succeed in launching interstellar […]
When plutonium trickled onto the earth
Scientists made a rare find in a sample of oceanic crustal material: the rock contained around a dozen atoms of the plutonium isotope Pu-244. This […]
Now the cow also has spots
Holy cow, what was that ?! This is more or less how many astrophysicists should have reacted to a special celestial event on June 16, […]
Press release IAU: Sweden gets a planet to christen
This article was originally published by rymdaret.se. – This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and part of the celebration […]
Ny forskning visar att supermassiva svarta hål kan bildas av mörkt material
En ny teoretisk studie har föreslagit en ny mekanism för att skapa supermassiva svarta hål från mörk materia. Det internationella laget finner att snarare än […]
Un nuevo estudio sugiere que los agujeros negros supermasivos podrían formarse a partir de la materia oscura
Un nuevo estudio teórico ha propuesto un mecanismo novedoso para la creación de agujeros negros supermasivos a partir de materia oscura. El equipo internacional encontró […]
The collision of neutron stars can be detected in advance – the waiting time remains short
Neutron star fusions are extremely interesting phenomena. The research team analyzes how the signs of a future collision differ from the observations of gravitational wave […]
China opens the world’s largest radio telescope for international science
The FAST, or Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is, as the name implies, the world’s largest uniform radio telescope with a diameter of 500 meters […]
