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A gamma-ray pulsar milestone inspires innovative astrophysics and applications

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, announce the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray...

Starquakes Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism

That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism.Stellar SymmetryLast year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at...

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter. We learn in school that...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins contract to launch NASA’s astrophysics mission

Washington: NASA has selected tech billionaire Elon Musk’s private aerospace company, SpaceX, to provide launch services for an astrophysics mission to survey the sky...

How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

What lies beyond all we can see? The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response: Our universe is a swelling bubble....

The Secret Ingredient That Powers Supernovas

In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy. It was the brightest and closest supernova since the invention...

The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

Ever since astronomers reached a consensus in the 1980s that most of the mass in the universe is invisible—that “dark matter” must glue galaxies...

What If the Big Bang Was Actually a Big Bounce?

Steinhardt and company imagine a universe that expands for perhaps a trillion years, driven by the energy of an omnipresent (and hypothetical) field, whose...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope ground system clears major review

Washington: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope`s ground system, which will make data from the spacecraft available to scientists and the public, has just successfully...

Astronomers Track a Fast Radio Burst to Its Source—a Magnetar

With the culprit in hand, astronomers can now focus on pinpointing the nitty-gritty physics at play. Over the past month, a flood of papers...

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