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NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Enters Extended Phase of Mission

During its five-year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

22 Aug 2013

Twin Jets of Matter from Newborn Star Blast out Into Space at Record-Breaking Speed

While observing a newborn star, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope discovered twin jets of matter blasting out into space at record-breaking speed. These surprisingly forceful molecular "winds" could help refine our understanding of how stars impact their cloudy nurseries and shape their emerging stellar systems.

22 Aug 2013

New Understanding of Neutrino Oscillations from Daya Bay Experiment

The international Daya Bay Collaboration has announced new results about the transformations of neutrinos - elusive, ghostlike particles that carry invaluable clues about the makeup of the early universe. The latest findings include the collaboration's first data on how neutrino oscillation – in which neutrinos mix and change into other "flavors," or types, as they travel – varies with neutrino energy, allowing the measurement of a key difference in neutrino masses known as "mass splitting."

22 Aug 2013

New Theory Shows How Zombie Vortices Lead to Birth of New Star

A new theory by fluid dynamics experts at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star.

22 Aug 2013

ALMA Views Material Streaming Away From Newborn Star

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon monoxide molecules in an object called Herbig-Haro 46/47 they have discovered that its jets are even more energetic than previously thought.

21 Aug 2013

Some Free-Floating Planets May Have Formed On Their Own

Tiny, round, cold clouds in space have all the right characteristics to form planets with no parent star. New observations, made with Chalmers University of Technology telescopes, show that not all free-floating planets were thrown out of existing planetary systems. They can also be born free.

20 Aug 2013

Perimeter Institute Announces Schedule for BrainSTEM Festival

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the schedule for BrainSTEM: Your Future Is Now Festival.

20 Aug 2013

American Astronomical Society Honors Cornell Professor with 2013 Dirk Brouwer Award

Citing research that has transformed our scientific view of the heavens, the American Astronomical Society (Division of Dynamical Astronomy) will give Joseph A. Burns, Ph.D. ’66, the Irving P. Church Professor of Engineering and professor of astronomy, the prestigious 2013 Dirk Brouwer Award. The presentation will take place in Philadelphia in May 2014.

19 Aug 2013

Swinburne Improves University Ranking Within Australia in the Field of Physics

For the second consecutive year, Swinburne University of Technology has been ranked as one of the world's top 400 universities by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

19 Aug 2013

Mature-Looking Galaxies May Have Existed Much Earlier Than Previously Known

Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by doctoral candidate BoMee Lee and her advisor Mauro Giavalisco at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the universe was only about 2.5 billion years old, or 11.5 billion years ago. “Finding them this far back in time is a significant discovery,” says lead author Lee.

17 Aug 2013