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Oldest Material on Earth Found in Australia

Image Credit: Triff/Shutterstock.com Presolar grains of dust taken from a meteorite that crashed into the Australian landscape over 50 years ago are thought to be among the oldest materials on Earth. Researchers ana...

14 Jan 2020

Study Reveals Intermediate-Mass Stars Will Probably Explode, Not Collapse

A research team, including several scientists from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), has experimentally established the properties of nuclear processes in matter that is 25 times hotter and 10 million times denser than the core of the Sun.

13 Jan 2020

Fusion of Large Neutron Star Binary System Creates Gravitational Waves

Recently, it was discovered that the fusion of a very large binary system of neutron stars created gravitational waves. This discovery also involved the University of Valencia.

13 Jan 2020

New Method Reduces Error Rates, Increases Efficiency in Quantum Computers

One of the most fascinating promises of quantum technology is a functional quantum computer. Quantum computers have considerably increased computing power, possessing the ability to solve tasks that otherwise cannot be handled by traditional computers.

13 Jan 2020

SuperTIGER-2 Finally Reaches Float Altitude, Starts Collecting Scientific Data

Three and a half weeks after being launched, a balloon-borne scientific instrument developed to investigate the source of cosmic rays is on its second prowl high above the continent of Antarctica.

13 Jan 2020

Newfound Star Cluster Could Reveal New Insights into Milky Way’s History

The oldest stars of the Milky Way galaxy are found within its outskirts. However, in this celestial retirement community, astronomers have observed something unpredicted—a cluster of young stars.

8 Jan 2020

TESS Discovers TOI 1338 b, the First Circumbinary Planet to be Observed

Wolf Cukier’s job as a summer intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2019 was to investigate variations in star brightness that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captures and uploads to the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project.

8 Jan 2020