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Detecting Dusty Clouds and Stars: New Radio Wave Technique Uncovers Shadows of Clouds and Stars in Milky Way's Center
January 7, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a new tool for detecting dusty clouds and stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy: simply take a picture using radio waves. Unlike in the optical, X-ray and infrared ... > full story -
'Junk DNA' Made Visible Before the Final Cut
January 7, 2013 — New research is shining a light on an important regulatory role performed by the so-called dark matter, or "junk DNA," within each of our ... > full story -
Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System
January 3, 2013 — The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were ... > full story -
Are We Closing in on Dark Matter?
December 18, 2012 — More than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrophysicists are now united in the hunt to determine what is dark matter. Their goal: to take stock of the latest theories and ... > full story -
Too Much Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster? 'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
November 29, 2012 — Astronomers were puzzled earlier this year when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted an overabundance of dark matter in the heart of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520. This observation was ... > full story -
Searching for Elusive Dark Matter Material
November 15, 2012 — Researchers are making key contributions to a physics experiment that will look for one of nature's most elusive particles, "dark matter," using a tank nearly a mile underground beneath the Black ... > full story -
Supersymmetry Squeezed as Large Hadron Collider Spots Ultra Rare Particle Decay
November 13, 2012 — Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature. The result is very damaging to new theories like the extremely ... > full story -
BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe
November 12, 2012 — BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is mapping a huge volume of space to measure the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe. BOSS is the largest program of the third ... > full story -
Cassini Halloween Treat: Titan Glows in the Dark
October 31, 2012 — A literal shot in the dark by imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has yielded an image of a visible glow from Titan, emanating not just from the top of Titan's atmosphere, but also -- ... > full story -
CALIFA Survey Publishes Intimate Details of 100 Galaxies
October 31, 2012 — The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey (CALIFA survey) has published a first set of data, offering views of one hundred galaxies in the local Universe at an unprecedented level of detail. ... > full story
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