Physical Sciences

Fragmentation In The Disk: New Studies Give Boost To Binary Star Formation Theory

half of all Sun-like stars are members of double or multiple-star systems, but have debated over how ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2013 - 2:50pm

NASA's Hubble images of distant galaxies by gravitational lensing. How an astronomer sees them.

interested in are likely the small smudges of red light at the edges of the image you see all over the web, ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 9 2014 - 8:12am

True Classical Black Holes Don't Exist Says Stephen Hawking. I Say He's Right.

of quantum gravity have claimed that a black hole need not be the all destroying point of no return ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 2 2014 - 9:26am

Universal Thunderdome: Two Early Galaxies Enter, One Early Galaxy Leaves

Toft.  He explains that when such gas-rich galaxies merge, all of the gas is driven into the center of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2014 - 11:52am

Hypothesis: How Stellar Death Can Lead To Bipolar Jets

production of these accretion disks. All these scenarios involve two stars or a star and a massive planet, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 10:29am

Beta Pictoris: Icy Debris Suggests 'Shepherd' Planet

equivalent to about one-sixth the mass of Earth's oceans. The presence of all this gas is interesting ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 4:40pm

O-Types: Death Stars In Orion Blast Proplyds To Dust

vanished under the intense glow of a neighboring massive star." Many, if not all, Sun-like stars are ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 11:57am

None Of The Above: A Science Show The Whole Family Will Enjoy

experiment is a real kid pleaser (and we're all still kids at heart). Find me a kid on the planet who ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2014 - 12:49pm

Cosmic Collision Creates Mini-Saturn 2 Billion Kilometers Away

a giant collision between Earth and another planet. In the collision, material hurled out in all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 4:20pm

Dimethylnaphthalene And The Cosmic Barometer

a comprehensive catalogue of all aromatic hydrocarbons to understand more about high pressure zones. This ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 1:34pm