U-tube: the glass tube and piezoelectric speaker that were used to create the new mass sensor. (Courtesy: William Grover) A $12 device that can measure the mass of microgram-sized objects in fluid has ...

In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

Neutron star and black hole masses in binary systems are calculable using Kepler's laws of motion, based on orbital parameters and object speeds. Merging neutron stars or black holes emit ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a ...

An actively feeding black hole surrounds itself with a disk of hot gas and dust that flickers like a campfire. Astronomers have now found that monitoring changes in those flickers can reveal something ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system. Eris is 1.27 ...

So, where is the anomaly? According to Loeb, the mystery is why we haven't spotted many more interstellar objects before we ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a ...