Collisions

International research team investigated the isotopic composition of rocky planets in the inner Solar System. Earth and <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="MarsMars is the second…

If you’ve been following developments in astronomy over the last few years, you may have heard about the so-called “crisis in cosmology,” which has astronomers wondering whether there might be something wrong with our current…

A breakthrough astrophysics code, named Octo-Tiger, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to parallelize the code to achieve superior…

Yet with a sample size of one, such assertions could only be educated guesses, says Carl Rodriguez, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University.Now data from LIGO’s latest catalog show that black-hole binaries are far less common…