Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

X-ray interferometry for studying supermassive black holes, mitigating the effects of space radiation by mitochondria transplants, low mass starshades and a novel approach to oxygen supply for ...

Scottish research laboratories are set to get £10m in funding for a European mission to deploy spacecraft which will measure ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) project involves deploying three spacecraft which will orbit the sun more than 60 million kilometres from Earth, forming a triangle with sides 2.5 million kilometres ...

A new Scottish laboratory is to play a key role in a flagship space agency mission that will provide insights on the formation of the early universe ...

The astronomers added that ZTF J0112+5827 may become a source of gravitational waves (GWs) in the future, detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission planned to be launched ...

The burst's host galaxy is more than halfway across the observable universe and up to 100 times fainter than other host ...

These ripples then travel across space and carry energy ... That’s when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US detected these waves for the first time.

The discovery could explain mysterious signatures seen in gravitational wave signals detected by the Laser Interferometer, Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and its co-detector Virgo.

Scotland is at the heart of two of humanity’s most important and innovative space science missions” – Paul Bate, UK Space Agency ...

But while it's true that much of what happens millions of light years away is large, there are also processes happening at the quantum end of the scale. That's the branch of science which explains how ...

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