Jul 2, 2020 by News Staff

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have observed G286.21+0.17, a massive...

May 11, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories have observed a 3-million-light-year-long bridge of hot gas linking two unequal...

Apr 22, 2020 by News Staff

In a new study, an international team of astronomers led by ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) combined data...

Mar 11, 2020 by News Staff

Physarum polycephalum, a single-cell organism known as slime mold, builds complex web-like filamentary networks in search of food, always finding near-optimal...

Jan 9, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using data from ESA’s Gaia star-mapping spacecraft, a team of astronomers from Austria and the United States has discovered a wave-shaped arrangement...

Dec 26, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers at MIT has found that phosphine, which is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, cannot be produced in any other way except...

Nov 11, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas that formed just 850 million years after the Big Bang. The chemical composition...

May 29, 2019 by News Staff

Many icy bodies in our Solar System have underground oceans. On the dwarf planet Pluto, an area called Sputnik Planitia suggests the presence of a subsurface...

Dec 18, 2018 by News Staff

According to a Swinburne University of Technology-led study, the newly-discovered relic cloud of gas is unpolluted by stars even 1.5 billion years after...

Nov 6, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) have observed a supermassive black hole acting like a ‘monumental fountain’...

Aug 3, 2018 by News Staff

A swallowable gas-sensing capsule (about the size of a vitamin pill) developed by RMIT University, in collaboration with Monash University and Atmo Bioscience,...

Jul 26, 2018 by News Staff

Q2343-BX418, a young star-forming galaxy located about 10 billion light years away from Earth, is surrounded by an enormous halo of gas, according to new...

Apr 17, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made an historic first with their experiment...