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Stacking Up a Clearer Picture of the Universe
Researchers have proven a
new technique that will
provide a clearer picture of
the Universe's history and
be used with the next
generation of radio
... > full story
Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life, Astrobiologists Find
Researchers have discovered
high concentrations of boron
in a Martian meteorite. When
present in its oxidized form
(borate), boron may have ... > full story
Scientists Size Up Universe's Most Lightweight Dwarf Galaxy
The least massive galaxy in
the known universe has now
been measured, clocking in
at just 1,000 or so stars
with a bit of dark matter
... > full story
Simple Theory May Explain Mysterious Dark Matter
The reason dark matter,
which makes up 85 percent of
all the matter in the
universe, is invisible could
be because it possesses a
rare, donut-shaped type of
... > full story
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Black Holes Abundant Among the Earliest Stars
June 5, 2013 — By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, astronomers have discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the ... > full story -
Cosmic Rays: Galactic Knee and Extragalactic Ankle
June 3, 2013 — A new experiment has yielded the important result that a characteristic bend in the energy spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays, also called "knee", is located at different energies for light and ... > full story -
'Population Census' of Galaxies Buried in Dust
May 31, 2013 — Conventional research on distant galaxies have been carried out mainly with visible light and near infrared light. However, it is possible that many galaxies in the universe have been overlooked as ... > full story -
New Mathematical Model Links Space-Time Theories
May 30, 2013 — Researchers have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our ... > full story -
Cosmic Glitch: Astronomers Discover New Phenomenon in Neutron Star
May 29, 2013 — The physics behind some of the most extraordinary stellar objects in the universe just became even more puzzling. A group of astronomers has discovered a new kind of glitch in the cosmos, ... > full story -
Cosmic Swirly Straws: Galaxies Fed by Funnels of Fuel
May 24, 2013 — Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws. The results show that cold gas -- fuel for stars ... > full story -
Detection of the Cosmic Gamma Ray Horizon: Measures All the Light in the Universe Since the Big Bang
May 24, 2013 — Radiation from all galaxies that ever existed suffuses the universe with a diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL). Measuring the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring heat from the ... > full story -
What the Smallest Infectious Agents Reveal About Evolution
May 23, 2013 — Radically different viruses share genes and are likely to share ancestry, according to new research. The comprehensive phylogenomic analysis compares giant viruses that infect amoeba with tiny ... > full story -
Fragile Mega-Galaxy Is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
May 22, 2013 — Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to new ... > full story -
NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe
May 21, 2013 — When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic ... > full story
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