According to a new theory proposed by University of Edinburgh Professor Arjun Berera and colleagues, shortly after the Universe came into existence it...
Origin of Universe’s heavy elements, ranging from gold to uranium, has finally been confirmed, after a gravitational wave source was seen and heard for...
An international team of researchers led by University of Portsmouth Professor Gong-Bo Zhao has found that the nature of dark energy may not be the cosmological...
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and...
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered...
For the first time, astrophysicists have confirmed that cosmic rays with ultra-high energies come from outside our Milky Way Galaxy.
At the Pierre Auger...
An international team of astronomers has measured the magnetic field of a star-forming galaxy nearly 4.6 billion light-years away.
An image obtained using...
In a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org preprint), Professor George Fuller of the University of California, San Diego,...
An international team of scientists has unveiled detailed maps of dark matter dynamics in the nearby Universe. The research is published in the Journal...
A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered a revolutionary way to generate high-energy shock waves in the lab.
Peering deep into the core of the...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a detailed image of an extremely distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy they believe...
In a paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (arXiv.org preprint), German physicists investigate the effects due to Universe’s...
A new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison supports the idea that our Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbors exist in one of the holes, or voids, of...
A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Cambridge, UK, has used computer simulations to predict the existence of a so-called naked singularity,...
A team of researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, has tackled the question ‘what causes...
