Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.
High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space.
Tabby’s star, famous for its inexplicable dips in brightness, is going through one of those dips right now.
Spacetime singularities might exist unhidden in strangely curved universes
In 2016, researchers published “slam dunk” evidence, based on iron-60 isotopes in ancient seabed, that supernovae buffeted the Earth — one of them about 2.6 million years ago. University of Kansas researcher Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, supported those findings in Nature with an associated letter, titled “Supernovae in the neighborhood.”
Researchers from around the world are scratching their heads over a newly discovered radio burst detected on Earth, but with a completely unknown origin.
The finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets.
Spending $50 million a year is a pittance in terms of managing this existential risk.
Astrobiologists ponder sending gene sequencers, weather stations, drilling rigs and more to the Red Planet
UBC physicists may have solved one of nature’s great puzzles: what causes the accelerating expansion of our universe?
