Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

ALMA finds protoplanetary disks depicting planet formation

Atacama Large Millimeter Array's DSHARP campaign has revealed high resolution images of nearby 20 protoplanetary disks, depicting the birh of new planets.

 

Dec 17, 2018, 12:57 PM IST

LIGO's twin black holes may have been born inside single star

On September 14 last year, the Laser LIGO in the US detected gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times the mass of the Sun. 

Feb 24, 2016, 22:26 PM IST

Planets similar to earth have identical interiors

In comparison, about a third of the Earth's mass is in its core.

Feb 09, 2016, 10:45 AM IST

NASA mission finds 100 new alien planets

With a tweak to its steering ability, scientists rectified the mechanical malfunction of Kepler's lost ability to stare at the same exact spot.

Jan 10, 2016, 15:51 PM IST