The latest Mercury, Mar / Apr 2020, is now available

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available and members can download the Mar / Apr 2020 issue from the Downloads page.

Highlights of this issue are:

The Liverpool Telescope
How Stars Burn
The search for Gravity, Part 3

Astronomy News Feeds

Astronomy
Radio Astronomy
Space
Dark Matter

ESPRESSO confirms presence of an Earth around the nearest star

28 May 2020

The results that have been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, reveal that the pl

Eleanor Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020)

28 May 2020

World-celebrated observational astronomer and astrophysicist Eleanor Margaret ... She finished her P

Extremely Hot Exoplanets Can Have Extreme Weather, Like Clouds of Aluminum Oxide and ...

28 May 2020

A team of astronomers has created a cloud atlas for Hot Jupiters, detailing which type of clouds and

In Planet Formation, It's Location, Location, Location

28 May 2020

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are finding that planets have a tough time form

Wilcots named dean of College of Letters & Science

28 May 2020

Wilcots, the Mary C. Jacoby professor of astronomy, served as deputy dean and associate dean for res

Tracy Shaffer

28 May 2020

In his spare time, he was an accomplished woodworking craftsman, amateur astronomer, Boy Scout Maste

New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered: Fast Blue Optical Transients

28 May 2020

Two teams of astronomers used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telesco

Mysterious fast radio explosions helped detect missing matter in the universe, the study says

28 May 2020

Astronomers have detected the most massive neutron star so far due to this delay. The VISTA telescop

Summer Students

28 May 2020

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated u

Science news in brief: From black hole boomerangs to deadly praying mantises

27 May 2020

Now, radio astronomy observations have shown how that happens. Astronomers have no trouble understan

Not a parallel universe: the search for neutrinos, particles of spectral messengers

27 May 2020

They designed the ANITA instrument as a radio telescope to detect high energy neutrinos that could b

Jean-Pierre Macquart

27 May 2020

He works at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University and is a member

'Distance' from the brightest stars is key to preserving primordial discs

28 May 2020

... of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, USA. "You may still have a disc, but

DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE CHANNEL TO GO LIVE AT NEXT NASA LAUNCH OF SPACEX ...

28 May 2020

... TO SPACE,' a Multiplatform Event, to Simulcast Live Coast to Coast on Saturday, May 30 at 2

In Planet Formation, It's Location, Location, Location

28 May 2020

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operat

NASA and Its Partners Launch Virtual Hackathon to Develop COVID-19 Solutions

28 May 2020

NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are inviting coders,

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex reopens, sold out for Saturday's SpaceX launch

28 May 2020

The launch, which will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space S

NASA's isolation experts: Lockdown lessons from space

28 May 2020

Scientists at the US agency offer advice about remote working, social isolation and quarantine. Bria

NCRL Reads Virtual Author Series starts Tuesday

28 May 2020

He is the author of the novel “Dark Matter,” for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Picture

Thor: 10 Scientifically True Things Mentioned In The Movie

28 May 2020

The dark matter that fused with Jane could be likened to an element and the Soul Forge is the device

Proton decay and axion dark matter in SO (10) grand unification via minimal left–right symmetry

28 May 2020

Proton decay and axion dark matter in SO(10) grand unification via minimal left–right symmetry. Yuta

Fresh antimatter study by ALICE will help with search for dark matter

28 May 2020

The nature of dark matter remains a great mystery, and cracking its secrets would open a new door fo

PH 1st gravitational physicist to graduate at UP

28 May 2020

... in describing gravity in our solar system and the Milky Way, the existence of little-understood

Crucial Universe Problem Was Just Solved – What's Been Hiding Since The Big Bang?

28 May 2020

... able to successfully weighted the universe for the very first time – it seems that it was discov