In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy
There are at least 20 solid forms of ice known to us. Recently, 51ԹϺ scientists have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures.
Findings could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets.
Findings could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets.
A correlation between the observed frequencies and polarizations of the energetic radio pulses suggests the bursts originate in active regions such as magnetars in binary systems.
Detected in the galaxy M81, which is about 12 million light years from Earth, baffles astronomers
About 100 years ago, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 1922, at 10 a.m., eight members of the Colorado River Commission gathered for the first time at the offices of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Over the next 11 months, they negotiated the details of the Colorado River Compact signed on Nov. 24, 1922. (Herbert) Hoover, then secretary of commerce, stated: “It is hoped that such an agreement … will prevent endless litigation which will inevitably arise in the conflict of states’ rights.”
Its origin challenges assumptions about what causes these enigmatic signals
Around the turn of the 21st century, a new age of galactic discovery began.
The telescope will be used to take unprecedented images of the deepest part of the universe. The powerful space instrument will devote a full quarter of its first year to peering at exoplanets in the Milky Way.
When the James Webb Space Telescope gets into place next month about a million miles from Earth, it will allow scientists to see the light of distant galaxies and marvel at the origins of the universe.
A team of researchers has observed an unusual transformation in material under incredibly high pressure.
Not a year goes by that Earth's satellites don't find a solar system's worth of planets, stars, and other heavenly bodies that would be dismissed as ridiculous if a science fiction writer invented them.