Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds | Physics
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher,…
New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…
Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation
“One of the goals of the Webb telescope is to find the first stars, the first galaxies,” Danilo…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
New findings reveal the cause of potentially damaging electrical discharges on satellites
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers observed that increased electron activity on the surface of a spacecraft, such as…
Why the spiral pass had physicists’ heads spinning for decades : Short Wave : NPR
Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the…
Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most…