X-ray data may be first evidence of a star devouring a planet
New data may explain star’s mysterious dimming.
New data may explain star’s mysterious dimming.
Most thorough test to date finds no Lorentz violation in high-energy neutrinos.
The “ghostly particle” is confirmed to have originated from a blazar, nearly 4 billion light years from Earth.
Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing, researchers say.
Exoplanet-seeking satellite developed by MIT swings by moon toward final orbit.
Professor Sara Seager previews a new era of discovery as a leader of the TESS mission, which is expected to find some 20,000 extrasolar planets.
Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.
Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.
Symposium explores how novel ideas and experiments are advancing many areas of theoretical physics in newly interconnected ways.
Data could shed light on why the universe has more matter than antimatter.
Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.
Emitted just 180 million years after Big Bang, signal indicates universe was much colder than expected.
MIT's Mark Vogelsberger and an international astrophysics team have created a new model pointing to black holes’ role in galaxy formation.
The planetary system’s dense configuration gives clues to its formation
Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.