Nomads of the galaxy
Recently, a study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposing planets simply adrift in space may be something of a common phenomenon. View More (2012-05-24)
Baby galaxies grew up quickly
Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. View More (2012-05-17)
El Gordo - A 'Fat' Distant Galaxy Cluster
An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster - the largest ever seen in the distant Universe - has been studied by an international team using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert in Chile along with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. View More (2012-01-11)
Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes - a steady diet of cold, fast food. View More (2011-12-13)
In a star's final days, astronomers hunt 'signal of impending doom'
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova. View More (2011-12-01)
VLBA observations key to 'complete description' of black hole
For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. View More (2011-11-18)
NIST physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance
Why there is stuff in the universe-more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter-is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. View More (2011-11-10)
Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe?
The Universe wouldn't be the same without the Higgs boson. This legendary particle plays a role in cosmology and reveals the possible existence of another closely related particle. View More (2011-09-22)
How the Milky Way got its spiral
The signature spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were likely formed by an epic collision between the Milky Way and the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher and his collaborators, published today in the prestigious British journal Nature. View More (2011-09-16)
NASA's Hubble makes one millionth science observation
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away. View More (2011-07-06)
New insights into the 'hidden' galaxies of the universe
A unique example of some of the lowest surface brightness galaxies in the universe have been found by an international team of astronomers lead by the Niels Bohr Institute. View More (2011-06-15)
Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Prediction of Modified Gravity Theory
Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. View More (2011-02-23)
Rutgers, Chilean astrophysicists discover new galaxy clusters revealed by cosmic 'shadows'
An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. View More (2010-11-02)
Universe chaotic from very beginning
Seven years ago Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic. Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments. View More (2010-09-08)
Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory
Researchers describe how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory in a paper published tomorrow in Physical Review Letters. View More (2010-09-01)
'Galactic archaeologists' find origin of Milky Way's ancient stars
Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University. View More (2010-06-30)
Probing the dark side of the universe
Advancing into the next frontier in astrophysics and cosmology depends on our ability to detect the presence of a particular type of wave in space, a primordial gravitational wave. View More (2010-05-21)
Black holes -- gas blowers of the Universe
Supermassive black holes with the mass of many millions of stars have been detected at the centre of many large galaxies. View More (2010-05-12)
Searching for Dark Energy with the Whole World's Supernova Dataset
The international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has announced the Union2 compilation of hundreds of Type Ia supernovae, the largest collection ever of high-quality data from numerous surveys. Analysis of the new compilation significantly narrows the possible values that dark energy might take-but not enough to... View More (2010-04-22)
World's largest particle collider may unlock secrets of universe
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious properties of dark matter and perhaps even extra dimensions in the universe. View More (2010-03-24)
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