In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
For the first time, an international team caught a rapidly spinning pulsar that had just finished snacking on its companion star and was ready to destroy it with strong wind and radiation.
Questions still remain after a missing Titanic submersible suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' and left five people dead.
All stories start somewhere – even the incomprehensibly vast expanse above us has a beginning. Scientists have long studied the cosmos, searching for answers to the “how’s” and “why’s” of life, and that effort continues to this day.
The report of an alien sighting at a Las Vegas home made headlines around the world. The reported sighting was triggered when a mysterious fireball was seen falling from the sky. That's when numerous calls came to 911 with one Las Vegas caller claiming an alien was in their backyard. Astrophysicist Jason Steffen says it was a meteor, not a spaceship, and it probably landed in the ocean. Inside Edition's Jim Moret returned to the Las Vegas home that reportedly spotted the aliens.
The report of an alien sighting at a Las Vegas home made headlines around the world. The reported sighting was triggered when a mysterious fireball was seen falling from the sky. That's when numerous calls came to 911 with one Las Vegas caller claiming an alien was in their backyard. Astrophysicist Jason Steffen says it was a meteor, not a spaceship, and it probably landed in the ocean.
To reverse signals in time, we’ve always used a digital approach. Now, a new analog method could dramatically improve wireless communications.
The claim: Radar technology wouldn’t work if the Earth was a globe. Our rating: False.
Redshift and blueshift are used by astronomers to work out how far an object is from Earth.
Some planets outside our solar system are thought to be tidally locked, with one side always facing their star, creating a world divided into hot and cold. Now, it seems this set-up may not be permanent after all, allowing the two sides to flip.
An international team of scientists found that there may be a correlation between the mysterious phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) and gravitational waves emanating from neutron star mergers.
We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs.
For years, astronomers have been detecting incredibly powerful pulses from the cosmos, without a confirmed source. Recent advances in astronomy are getting us closer to the solution.