Read article 'When white dwarfs collide…'
A peculiar supernova discovered last year could be the first that is known to have originated from the coalescence of two white dwarfs. These compact stars orbiting each other slowly spiralled inward ...
Read article 'Pierre Auger Observatory pinpoints source of mysterious highest-energy cosmic rays'
The Pierre Auger Collaboration has discovered that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays arriving on Earth.
Read article 'Astronomers detect mysterious phenomenon'
Analysis of six-year old archival data of the Parkes radio telescope in Australia has revealed a giant burst of radio waves. Extremely bright, brief and distant, this unique event seems to come from a...
Read article 'ALMA: a guided tour with Massimo Tarenghi'
The director of a new large-scale radio telescope explains its goals.
Read article 'WMAP’s cold spot shows giant void in space'
An enormous void, nearly a thousand million light-years across, seems to be at the origin of a cold spot that the Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe (WMAP) has found in the cosmic microwave backgrou...
Read article 'The LOFAR radio telescope detects its first pulsar'
Using its first station of distributed radio antennas, the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has successfully detected the pulsar PSR B0329+54.
Read article 'Conceptions of Cosmos. From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology'
This is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context.
Read article 'Black holes appear to play a role in the evolution of the universe'
Are black holes just a curiosity of nature or do they play a role in the formation and shaping of galaxies? The results of the most accomplished simulation to date show that the evolution of galaxies ...
Read article 'Europe’s astroparticle physicists publish roadmap to the stars'
The Astroparticle Physics European Coordination (ApPEC) consortium and the AStroParticle European Research Area (ASPERA) network have together published a roadmap giving an overview of the status and ...
Read article 'VERITAS telescopes celebrate first light'
David Hanna looks at the VHE gamma-ray telescope array in Arizona.
