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...
Read article 'Germany seeks to fulfil astroparticle aspirations'
Axel Lindner reports on the fourth biennial workshop about the status, perspectives and future prospects of research in the field of astroparticle physics in Germany.
Read article 'Astroparticle Physics'
Marcello Lissia reviews in 2014 Astroparticle physics by Claus Grupen.
Read article 'INTEGRAL reveals Milky Ways’ supernova rate'
One supernova explosion every 50 years in our galaxy: that is the rate that a European team has determined from the observations of ESA's INTEGRAL gamma-ray satellite. This figure is based on the amo...
Read article 'Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results'
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
Read article 'Spitzer sees light from the very first stars'
Deep observations with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed infrared background anisotropies that can be attributed to emission from the very first stars in the universe. The diffuse glo...
Read article 'Do gamma rays reveal our galaxy’s dark matter?'
An observed excess of diffuse gamma rays traces the distribution of dark matter in our galaxy through its annihilations. Wim de Boer describes a recent analysis of the data.
Read article 'Gamma-ray bursts: a look behind the headlines'
Has the 35 year old mystery regarding gamma-ray bursts really been solved, and are recent observations really a complete surprise? Arnon Dar thinks not.
