Using The Big Bang As A Ruler Cosmologists use baryon acoustic oscillations to map distances as the universe expands February 15, 2018 by Crystal Riley Read More
An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Through Our Solar System Scientists are guessing the origins of an interstellar asteroid visitor they detected speeding through our solar system November 16, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
A New Field of Science: Space Pasta and Nuclear Crusts Astromaterial science studies nuclear pasta and Coulomb crystals in neutron stars November 8, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
Gravitational Waves from A Neutron Star Merger Shake the Earth and Astrophysics The LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detection on Oct 16 leads to major leaps in understanding of astrophysics. October 19, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
The Sleeping Giant in a Small Town A supermassive black hole, 17 billion times the size of our Sun, was found in a small galaxy October 16, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
Two Black Holes Made a Mega Black Hole! An insight into the size of the gravitational wave as well as the benefit of three detectors October 11, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
Tumbleweeds Interrupt the Discovery of Black Holes LIGO detectors are sensitive enough to detect air and ground noise. July 10, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
The Sun is Hiding Extra Light and Energy from Us! Scientists discover the Sun has higher opacity than existing model’s predicted. June 6, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
Mysterious, Unusual Intergalactic Radio Signal Found Astronomers find the location of an unusual radio pulse to be outside our galaxy and are currently unable to determine the source. May 8, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More
Shoelaces are Tripping Up Physicists Scientists explain how your shoelaces untie themselves April 24, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More