Read article 'Neutrinos provide new route to heavy elements in supernovae'
During their long lifetimes stars generate their energies by nuclear fusion in their interiors, which are generally accepted to be the breeding grounds for carbon and heavier elements.
Read article 'HESS helps lift the fog in intergalactic space'
Observations of very high-energy gamma-rays from two distant active galaxies reveal that the universe is more transparent to this radiation than previously thought. This limited absorption of gamma-ra...
Read article 'Sterile neutrinos unravel astrophysics'
Almost every current theoretical model of neutrino masses introduces sterile ("right-handed") fields, which mix with the ordinary ("left-handed") neutrinos.
Read article 'New WMAP results give support to inflation'
NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) collaboration has finally released new observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with updated results on the nature and origi...
Read article 'High schools focus on the extreme universe'
James Pinfold reports on the large number of projects that are forging a connection between research in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and practical scientific experience in schools.
Read article '300 questions à un astronome'
Antonella del Rosso reviews (in French) in 2006 300 questions à un astronome.
Read article 'Quand le Ciel nous bombarde: Qu’est-ce que les rayons cosmiques?'
Roger Anthoine reviews (in French) in 2006 Quand le Ciel nous bombarde: Qu'est-ce que les rayons cosmiques?
Read article 'Astronomers find new class of neutron star'
An international team of astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia has detected very short radio flashes from 11 sources distributed in the plane of our galaxy. The isolated flash...
Read article 'Prague meeting focuses on colliders and cosmic rays'
The C2CR meeting in Prague targeted the interface between cosmic-ray physics and the current and future results from accelerators and colliders.
Read article 'Microlensing detects most Earth-like exoplanet'
A planet of a mass of only about five times that of the Earth has been discovered at a distance of about 20,000 light years, not far from the centre of the Milky Way. It circles its parent low-mass st...
