An international team of researchers has used sophisticated models to calculate the mass of the Milky Way. They have written a paper describing their efforts and results, and have posted it on the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University astronomer has developed a method for reliably estimating the mass of black holes in distant quasars. Based on this method, Marianne Vestergaard, a ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI), scientists from a number of institutions have made a crucial breakthrough in estimating the fundamental properties of the cosmos. ScienceDaily tells us that the ...

New spacecraft techniques propose using CubeSats, laser rangefinding, and precise Doppler measurements to determine the mass of potentially hazardous asteroids during flyby missions.

begun to address the longstanding issue of why only a small fraction of quasars are capable of producing very powerful radio emission.