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Searching for Dark Energy With the Whole World's Supernova Dataset
April 21, 2010 — The Supernova Cosmology Project's Union2 compilation and reanalysis of decades of supernova surveys from the world's leading researchers, with the addition of six high-redshift supernovae, puts new ... > full story -
NASA's Swift Catches 500th Gamma-Ray Burst
April 19, 2010 — In its first five years in orbit, NASA's Swift satellite has given astronomers more than they could have hoped for. Its discoveries range from a nearby nascent supernova to a blast so far away that ... > full story -
Galaxy Merger Dilemma Solved
April 19, 2010 — Scientists have solved a long-standing dilemma about the mass of infrared bright merging galaxies. Because galaxies are the largest directly observable objects in the universe, learning more about ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Cast Doubt on Link Between Excess Positrons and Dark Matter
April 16, 2010 — Astrophysicists are looking everywhere -- inside the Large Hadron Collider, in deep mines and far out into space -- for evidence of dark matter, which makes up about 25 percent of the energy density ... > full story -
Supermassive Black Holes Strip Massive Galaxies of Star-Forming Gases
April 16, 2010 — Black holes have long been beloved of science fiction writers for their destructive capabilities and peculiar ability to warp space time. A new study reveals the awesome power of supermassive black ... > full story -
Einstein's Theory Fights Off Challengers
April 14, 2010 — Two new and independent studies have put Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to the test like never before. These results, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, show Einstein's theory ... > full story -
Have Black Holes Been Turning Up the Volume on the Cosmic Radio Background?
April 14, 2010 — Astronomers investigating why the cosmic background radiation is much brighter at radio wavelengths than expected have identified a potential culprit: fast spinning black holes early in the galaxy ... > full story -
LOFAR Opens Up the Low-Frequency Universe -- And Starts a New SETI Search
April 12, 2010 — The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a new pan-European radio astronomy facility, has started mapping the universe at very low energy wavelengths, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ... > full story -
Our Universe at Home Within a Larger Universe? So Suggests Physicist's Wormhole Research
April 6, 2010 — Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger ... > full story -
Large Hadron Collider: Beams Colliding at Record Energies Mark Start of Research Program
March 30, 2010 — Beams collided at 7 trillion electron volts (7 TeV) in the Large Hadron Collider on March 30 at CERN, marking the start of the LHC research program. Particle physicists around the world are looking ... > full story
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