Astronomy
Carbon/Oxygen Stars Could Explode as Gamma Ray Bursts
An international team of astronomers have found evidence that certain kinds of gamma-ray bursts, which are associated with Type 1C…
Rocky Planets Form Further Away Than Previously Thought
Astronomers have analyzed the dusty discs of newly forming planets around other stars, and have discovered that rocky planets (like…
Cosmic Rays Cause the Brightest Radio Flashes
When high-energy cosmic ray particles crash into the Earth's atmosphere, they produce some of the brightest radio flashes ever seen…
Dark Energy Could be a Breakdown of Einstein’s Theory
Cosmologists from Princeton are working on new tests that could help to explain the nature of "dark energy", a mysterious…
Amateurs Command Gemini for an Hour
A team of amateur Canadian astronomers took the helm at the powerful Gemini 8-metre telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea for…
Smallest Ever Coronal Mass Ejection
Usually it's the biggest things that get the news, but an international team of researchers have demonstrated that the tiny…
A SWIFT Response to Gamma Ray Bursts
Think astronomy is a boring task of poring over data or staring at star chart after start chart? Sometimes, it…
Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursters
With the launch of NASA's Swift spacecraft, Gamma Ray Bursts - those "most powerful explosions in the Universe" - have…
Superflares Might Have Protected the Early Earth
Our Sun can flare up from time to time, but probably nothing like the superflares it created in its early…
Watching Gamma Rays from the Safety of Earth
Astronomers aren't stuck looking at plain old light any more. There's a whole electromagnetic spectrum out there, ready to be…