Cosmology News

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Making Stars: How Cosmic Dust and Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution

Posted November 18, 2010:

• Planet from Another Galaxy Discovered: Galactic Cannibalism Brings an Exoplanet of Extragalactic Origin Within Astronomers' Reach
• Enigma of Missing Stars in Local Group of Galaxies May Be Solved

Posted November 15, 2010:

• NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole

Posted November 11, 2010:

• Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Atoms-for-Peace: A Galactic Collision in Action

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Close-Up of Hidden Galaxies With New Cosmic Zoom Lenses

Posted November 4, 2010:

• New Way to Peer at Distant Galaxies

Posted November 3, 2010:

• What Will Webb See? Supercomputer Models Yield Sneak Previews

Posted November 2, 2010:

• Astronomers Find Evidence of 'Cosmic Climate Change'

Posted November 1, 2010:

• Astrophysicists Discover New Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Cosmic 'Shadows'

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Precocious Galaxy Cluster Identified by Chandra
• Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse of Distant Stars: 'Starquakes' Yield New Insights About the Size, Age and Evolution of Stars

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured: Faint Glow from When the Universe Was Only 600 Million Years Old

Posted October 14, 2010:

• Astronomer Leverages Supercomputers to Study Black Holes, Galaxies

Posted October 13, 2010:

• Galaxy Growth Spurts Explained: Young Galaxies Can Grow by Sucking in Cool Gas
• Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe Hold 800 Trillion Suns

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Large Hadron Collider Used to Recreate Miniature Version of Beginning of Universe
• Wild 'Teenage' Galaxies Booming With Star Births

Posted October 11, 2010:

• Universe Likes to Form Galaxies Similar to the Milky Way

Posted October 7, 2010:

• 'Living Dinosaurs' in Space: Galaxies in Today's Universe Thought to Have Existed Only in Distant Past
• Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe

Posted October 6, 2010:

• NASA's WMAP Project Completes Satellite Operations: Mission Observed Universe's Oldest Light

Posted September 27, 2010:

• First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered by Pan-STARRS Telescope
• Gigantic Mirror for X-Radiation in Outer Space

Posted September 21, 2010:

• Universal, Primordial Magnetic Fields Discovered in Deep Space

Posted September 16, 2010:

• Planck's First Glimpse at Galaxy Clusters Uncovers a New Supercluster

Posted September 10, 2010:

• Dwarf Galaxy Evolution: Reionization Alone Is Not Able to Stop Star Formation, Research Shows
• Astronomer Unveils the Mysteries of 'Green Pea' Galaxies

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests

Posted September 7, 2010:

• Big Bang Was Followed by Chaos, Mathematical Analysis Shows

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Hubble Observations of Supernova Reveal Composition of 'Star Guts' Pouring out

Posted August 31, 2010:

• IceCube Neutrino Observatory Nears Completion

Posted August 30, 2010:

• Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Makes Last Stop on Earth

Posted August 25, 2010:

• When Galaxies Collide: How the First Super-Massive Black Holes Were Born

Posted August 19, 2010:

• Astronomers Use Galactic Magnifying Lens to Probe Elusive Dark Energy
• Search for Antimatter and Dark Matter in Space: AMS Experiment Takes Off for Kennedy Space Center

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Ancient Galaxy Cluster Still Producing Stars

Posted August 16, 2010:

• Tantalizing Clues as to Why Matter Prevails in the Universe: Surprisingly Large Matter/antimatter Asymmetry Discovered

Posted July 21, 2010:

• Black Hole Jerked Around Twice
• New Technique for Studying Dark Energy

Posted July 16, 2010:

• Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens

Posted July 12, 2010:

• Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery

Posted July 7, 2010:

• Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks

Posted July 5, 2010:

• Planck Unveils the Universe: First All-Sky Image Provides New Insight Into How Stars and Galaxies Form

Posted June 29, 2010:

• 'Galactic Archaeologists' Find Origin of Milky Way's Ancient Stars

Posted June 24, 2010:

• New 'Fix' for Cosmic Clocks Could Help Uncover Ripples in Space-Time

Posted June 23, 2010:

• 'Ghost Particle' Sized Up by Cosmologists

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