All Astronomy


Supernova linked to human bipedalism

Added: 29 May 2019

A supernova that occurred 8 million years ago has been linked to humans walking on two legs.

Quark founder and Nobel Prize winner passes away

Added: 28 May 2019

US physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a leading figure in the creation of the Standard Model of particle p…

Brexit bomb

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 May 2019

In the shifting sands of Brexit, there are some things of which we can be sure. And one of them fee…

NASA detects likely marsquake

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 24 Apr 2019

Seismic activity has been detected on a planet other than Earth for the first time.!--more--

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Titanic lakes filled with methane

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Apr 2019

Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed that liquid lakes on Saturn’s largest moon are mor…

Opening science or narrowing its base?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Apr 2019

It may carry laudable ambition, but will Plan S damage science? From 2020, the scientific publishin…

First black hole image revealed

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Apr 2019

The first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole has been unveiled.!--more--

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The quest to go quantum

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Apr 2019

Dotted around the UK, scientists are slowly but surely turning quantum research into commercial pro…

Twisted Milky Way

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Mar 2019

3D mapping of the Milky Way galaxy shows that it is not flat but warped and twisted in shape.

Future Circular Collider: Is it worth it?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Future Circular Collider: What is it?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Saturnian day deduced from ring formations

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 30 Jan 2019

Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has enabled a more accurate estimate of the length of a day on …

Beating the diamond-standard

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019

Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

Two beams are better than one

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Dec 2018

As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …

Black hole gas rings flow in complex formations

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 30 Nov 2018

The black hole "donut" is not actually a rigid structure.

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The black rings of gas surroundi…

NASA's InSight spacecraft lands on Mars

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 27 Nov 2018

NASA’s InSight robot lander has successfully touched down on the surface of Mars.

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Minding the gap

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 12 Sep 2018

When it comes to visualising ultra-fast phenomena, especially biological processes, there is a prob…

Spectacular image of the Rosette Nebula

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Jun 2018

This spectacular image is of the Rosette Nebula and is in the direction of the constellation Monoce…

This isn’t the binary system you’re looking for…

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 May 2018

Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers study the habitability of circumbinary planets – tho…

Milky Way steps up in gravitational arms race

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 21 Mar 2018

The apparently inevitable death of our own galaxy as it is engulfed by it’s nearest galactic neighb…