For years, astronomers have been baffled by strange, slow-pulsing radio signals coming from deep space. These bursts of energy, unlike the rapid pulses seen in typical neutron stars, had no clear explanation—until now. In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers traced one ...
In its early stages, a temperature check of the universe, just 880 million years after the Big Bang, was made possible by studying the shadow produced by a cloud of cold water gas 13.8 billion light-years distant from Earth. It’s ...
Scientists have long believed that space could help form storm-like conditions above our planet, but now they have a photo of what researchers called a plasma space hurricane. The authors of a new paper recently posted in Nature Communications (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uor-sho030221.php) ...