WASHINGTON, May 28 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * Eccentric 'Star' Defies Easy Explanation, NASA's Chandra Finds By Lee Mohon Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SKA [Square Kilometer Array] Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia to  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * MIT researchers use Frontier to model the density, pressure inside neutron stars * For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination -- perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier supercomputer, located at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * New England For-Hire Groundfish Fleet Partners with NOAA Fisheries to Improve Cod Data * Atlantic cod is a classic New England fish, found everywhere from roadside fish-and-chip stands to the Massachusetts State House. Under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, NOAA Fisheries fosters the long-term biological and economic sustainability of marine fisheries, including rebuilding overfished stocks. C  more