SETI3d
Searching for ET with Lasers: A New Observatory Joins the Hunt!
Have you heard about LaserSETI, a SETI Institute project to search for lasers originating from extraterrestrial intelligence?
Amaze Lab on MSN2d
Detecting Gravitational Waves Is Harder Than You Think Which Is Why We Need an Observatory
Gravitational Waves were only first observed in 2015, captured via instruments at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave ...
EurekAlert!5d
A novel gravitational wave observatory configuration—Tetrahedron Constellation Gravitational Wave Observatory (TEGO)
Recently, a research team from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly proposed a novel  gravitational wave ...
Scientists Held an Extreme Atomic Experiment—and Challenged the Notions of What’s Possible
Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies ...
NASA6d
NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting
From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...
Le Lézard6d
Dr. Gerard van Belle Appointed Director of Science at Lowell Observatory, Charting a Bold Future for Research
Lowell Observatory is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gerard van Belle as the new Director of Science. Van Belle, ...
EurekAlert!4d
Penn State center awarded NASA grant to search for radio and laser signals from alien civilizations
Center have been awarded a three-year, $480,000 grant under the NASA Exoplanets Research Program to search for radio and laser signals from alien civilizations. The project is led by Pinchen Fan, a ...
Neutron star 'mountains' would cause ripples in space-time
Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...
Astronomers catch unprecedented features at brink of active black hole
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
Space on MSN4d
'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole
The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...
Astronomers detect rare X-ray flares from black hole 1ES 1927+654 caused by a nearby white dwarf
The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...