* Astronomy

Physicists bring together detector and accelerator to explore "new physics" beyond the Standard Model To study some of the tiniest particles in the universe, an international band of over 750 physicists from 23 countries is building a massive instrument. The instrument will smash subatomic par...

Asteroid named after Kiwi astronomer Michele Bannister Asteroid (10463) Bannister has been named after Taranaki-raised Michele Bannister, who now works at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland The rock, which is 11km wide, was first discovered in 1979, but is too faint to see with the n...

Orbital elements: 2014 JO25 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0115 AU Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 21.05730 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33633198 Peri. 49.44870 +0.20751182 -0.95373514 a 2.0478145 Node 30.73050 +0.71834502 -0.00239158 e 0.8844977 Incl. 25.19713 +0.66401753 +0.30063859 P 2.93 H 18....

Physicists observe 'negative mass' Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed. In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same direction as the force applied to it; this relationship is described by Isaac Newton's Se...

NGC 5516 (also ESO 221-34, AM 1412-475, PGC 50960) is a magnitude +12.0 elliptical/spiral galaxy located 188 million light-years away in the constellation Centaur. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Feldhausen,...

Image of sunspot 12651 (old sunspot 12644) captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metrop...

ATel 10283: Two Nearby supernova candidates discovered by PSST in NGC4532 and UGC09113

ATel 10283: Two Nearby supernova candidates discovered by PSST in NGC4532 and UGC09113

The tomb robbers have led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid. The mud-brick and limestone tombs date back more than 4,000 years to the 5th Dynasty were meant to house a chief dentist, Iy...

Open Science: Spacecraft Fire and Combustion Research Spoiler

'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today But 87 years ago, on 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. Read more

Corona Borealis and Bootes

Title: GRB 161219B / SN 2016jca: A low-redshift gamma-ray burst supernova powered by radioactive heating Author: Z. Cano, L. Izzo, A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. C. Thoene, T. Kruehler, K. E. Heintz, D. Malesani, S. Geier, C. Fuentes, T.-W. Chen, S. Covino, V. D'Elia, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Goldini, A. Gombac,...

Resembling festive lights on a holiday wreath, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 is an iconic reminder of the impending season. Bright knots of glowing gas light up the spiral arms, indicating a rich environment of star formation. M74 is located roughly 32 m...