Cosmology News

Posted August 3, 2012:

• Supernova Progenitor Found? New Research Identifies Star System That May Explode

Posted August 2, 2012:

• 'Cry' of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity

Posted August 1, 2012:

• Theoretical Physicists Probe the Majorana Mystery

Posted July 31, 2012:

• 100 Years of Cosmic Rays Mystery

Posted July 26, 2012:

• Brightest Stars Don't Live Alone: Most Stellar Heavyweights Come in Interacting Pairs, VLT Finds

Posted July 19, 2012:

• Understanding Hot Nuclear Matter That Permeated the Early Universe
• A Wrinkle in Space-Time: Math Shows How Shockwaves Could Crinkle Space
• Progress in Search for Neutrino-Less Double-Beta Decay of Xenon-136

Posted July 18, 2012:

• Astronomers Using the Hubble Space Telescope Report the Earliest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen
• Riding the Plasma Wave: Evidence for a Type of Plasma Wave Moving Faster Than Theory Predicted

Posted July 11, 2012:

• Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the First Time

Posted July 10, 2012:

• Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies

Posted July 9, 2012:

• A Roll of the Dice: Quantum Mechanics Researchers Show That Nature Is Unpredictable

Posted July 4, 2012:

• CERN Experiments Observe Particle Consistent With Long-Sought Higgs Boson

Posted June 28, 2012:

• NuSTAR Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes

Posted June 29, 2012:

• Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy

Posted June 27, 2012:

• ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away

Posted June 26, 2012:

• Gravitational Lensing: Astronomers Spot Rare Arc from Hefty Galaxy Cluster
• Reaching, Researching Between Stars: Astronomers Use Lonestar Supercomputer to Explore Role of Dark Matter in Galaxy Formation

Posted June 20, 2012:

• Soon After the Big Bang, Heavier Elements Emerge: Tin-100, a Doubly Magic Nucleus

Posted June 19, 2012:

• Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals

Posted June 13, 2012:

• Alien Earths Could Form Earlier Than Expected
• NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off
• No Evidence for 'Knots' in Space: Theories of Primordial Universe Predict Existence of Knots in Space

Posted June 9, 2012:

• Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft

Posted June 7, 2012:

• NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

Posted June 4, 2012:

• Physicists Close in on a Rare Particle-Decay Process: Underground Experiment May Unlock Mysteries of the Neutrino

Posted June 1, 2012:

• Astronomers Discover Faintest Distant Galaxy

Posted May 31, 2012:

• Crash of the Titans: Milky Way Is Destined for Head-on Collision With Andromeda Galaxy

Posted May 30, 2012:

• More Atomic Hydrogen Gas Lurks in Universe: There's More Star-Stuff out There, but It's Not Dark Matter

Posted May 22, 2012:

• Best Time to Study the Cosmos Was More Than 13 Billion Years Ago

Posted May 17, 2012:

• Giant Galaxy-Packed Filament Revealed

Posted May 16, 2012:

• NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
• Baby Galaxies Grew Up Quickly

Posted May 15, 2012:

• Black Holes Turn Up the Heat for the Universe

Posted May 10, 2012:

• Free-Floating Planets in the Milky Way Outnumber Stars by Factors of Thousands: Life-Bearing Planets May Exist in Vast Numbers

Posted May 9, 2012:

• Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
• VISTA Views a Vast Ball of Stars

Posted May 8, 2012:

• Is a New Form of Life Really So Alien?

Posted May 7, 2012:

• One Supernova Type, Two Different Sources
• Hubble Sees the Eye of the Storm in Galaxy Cluster

Posted May 1, 2012:

• Under 'Dark Halo' Old Galaxies Have Many More Stars

Posted April 30, 2012:

• Old Star, New Trick: Astronomers Have Detected Arsenic and Selenium in Ancient Star for First Time

Posted April 26, 2012:

• NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust

Posted April 25, 2012:

• Vast Structure of Satellite Galaxies Discovered: Do the Milky Way’s Companions Spell Trouble for Dark Matter?

Posted April 18, 2012:

• Serious Blow to Dark Matter Theories? New Study Finds Mysterious Lack of Dark Matter in Sun's Neighborhood

Posted April 17, 2012:

• Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-Making Region

Posted April 16, 2012:

• 1,000 Days of Infrared Wonders

Posted April 12, 2012:

• NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
• First-Ever Model Simulation of the Structuring of the Observable Universe

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