Read article 'Do fast radio bursts signal black-hole formation?'
Astronomers using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope in Australia have detected radio transients with a duration of only 4 ms. These fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of myste...
Read article 'IceCube detects ultra-high-energy events and observes oscillations'
Neutrino experiments – thanks to the nature of the particles themselves – are notoriously difficult and experiments that make use of the natural source of particles within the cosmic radiation fac...
Read article 'DESY inaugurates prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array'
The first prototype telescope for the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has been inaugurated in Berlin.
Read article 'Galaxy clusters shed new light on dark matter'
What is the actual distribution of dark matter? Does it follow the expectations for cold dark matter (CDM)? “Yes, it does,” according to a team of astronomers that has measured the average...
Read article 'Why do some gamma-ray bursts last hours?'
Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA’s Swift satellite represent a new class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Astrophysicists conclude that they probably arose from the ...
Read article 'AMS measures antimatter excess in space'
The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has announced the first results in its search for dark matter.
Read article 'Planck reveals an almost perfect universe'
The long awaited results from ESA’s Planck mission, based on the most detailed observations to date of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), were released on 21 March. While the new data c...
Read article 'Supernova remnants accelerate cosmic rays'
A century after the discovery of cosmic rays, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has gathered strong evidence that protons are, indeed, accelerated to high-energies by supernova remnants (SN...
Read article 'Plumbing the depths of neutron stars'
New techniques developed by the ISOLTRAP collaboration are allowing investigations of a possible birthplace of the heavy elements.
Read article 'Pulsar exhibits puzzling switches in state'
Astronomers have detected simultaneous X-ray and radio-mode switches in co-ordinated observations of a pulsar. Pulsed X-ray emission is only present in states of weak radio emission. This indicates a ...
