The answer, at first, is boring: it’s a simple no. But the reasons why you cannot are complex and varied – some come from the chemical structure, others from the instability, with a sprinkling ...

Shape shifter: the images reveal a large variation in the shape of exocomet belts (courtesy: Prof Luca Matra, Trinity College Dublin) Astrophysicists have released a series of images of exocomet belts ...

LISTEN: ANU astrophysicist Brad Tucker shares his advice ... These are very different from Halley's Comet or similar, which complete periodic orbits around the Sun. Unlike their orbits, C/2024 ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes. It’s the closest planet to the Sun, but it’s not the hottest planet in the solar system. It’s a world where daytime temperatures can melt lead, but ice may ...

“Everyone really wants to see a white dwarf get eaten by a black hole with LISA,” Matt Nicholl, an astrophysicist at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland who was not involved with ...

Some of them also repeat, which only adds to their mystery. Though astrophysicists think that a high-energy astrophysical process is the likely source of FRBs, they aren't certain how they're ...

Booths by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics-TIFR, as well as companies like Aether Energy and Bajaj Engineering Skills Training, displayed their respective technologies. In another session, ...

At a Jan. 12 meeting of three astrophysics committees during the 245 th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Mark Clampin, director of NASA’s astrophysics division, announced he was now ...

The periodic table of elements (often known simply as the periodic table) has been helping scientists with their work for a little over 150 years. The handy visual reference guide organizes known ...

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian High Energy Astrophysics division focuses on X-ray astronomy and instrumentation involved in observations of high-energy sources. This research aims ...

Trinity astrophysicist, Evan Keane, Associate Professor and Director of Trinity’s Rosse Observatory, has been honoured with the Royal Astronomical Society’s Group Achievement Award for his work in ...