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Does Probability Come from Quantum Physics?
February 5, 2013 — Ever since Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles. But a new article ... > full story -
Hubble Catches the Moment the Lights Went out
February 5, 2013 — The further away you look, the further back in time you see. Astronomers use this fact to study the evolution of the Universe by looking at nearby and more distant galaxies and comparing their ... > full story -
Astronomers Ask 'Where Are All the Dwarf Galaxies?'
February 1, 2013 — Astronomers have identified “Cosmic Web Stripping” as a new way of explaining the famous missing dwarf problem: the lack of observed dwarf galaxies compared with that predicted by the ... > full story -
New Method of Measuring the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes
January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such ... > full story -
Origin and Maintenance of a Retrograde Exoplanet
January 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, includes at least two giant planets and one companion star. The ... > full story -
NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission
January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story -
How the Universe Has Cooled Since the Big Bang Fits Big Bang Theory
January 23, 2013 — Astronomers have taken the universe's temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory ... > full story -
NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone
January 22, 2013 — Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem at Ball Aerospace & ... > full story -
Nearby Universe's 'Cosmic Fog' Measured
January 19, 2013 — Researchers have carried out the first measurement of the intensity of the diffuse extragalactic background light in the nearby universe, a fog of photons that has filled the universe ever since its ... > full story -
Dynamic, Dark Energy in an Accelerating Universe
January 14, 2013 — A new model is contributing towards understanding the nature of dark energy. If dark energy did not exist, the gravitational pull exerted by matter would slow down the expansion of the universe, but ... > full story
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