could have produced conditions that allowed rapid mineral hydration. Fred J. Ciesla, Dante S. Lauretta and Lon L. Hood of the UA and Barbara Cohen of the UH collaborated in the study. Lauretta and ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838. When a star moves through space it can push away nearby ...

Sonic boom prediction and analysis is a critical research area that underpins the development of next‐generation supersonic aircraft designed for civil transport. Sonic booms occur when aircraft ...

Astronomers shocked as inexplicable ‘wave’ comes out of dead star - ‘We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected,’ scientist says ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to spot something that should not exist: a bright ...

Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio of satellites, including two NASA missions, have captured the first direct evidence that most of the explosion’s visible light arose ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...