No significant signs of new physics with the present data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, but it takes only 1 significant deviation...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
"Water May Have Been Abundant in First Billion Years After the Big Bang"
"We looked at the chemistry within young molecular clouds containing a thousand times less oxygen than our Sun. To our surprise, we found...
A Cosmic Fossil is Reborn in a Remote Cluster of Over 350 Galaxies
There are three types of radio sources found in galaxy clusters like Abell 1033, a cluster of over 350 galaxies located about 1.7 billion...
Strange Object Found -- "The Long-Sought 'Missing Link' That Creates a Neutron Star or Black Hole"
The object, called Supernova 2012ap (SN 2012ap) is what astronomers term a core-collapse supernova. This type of blast occurs when...
Monday, 27 April 2015
NASA --"Is It On the Verge of Discovering 'Warp Bubbles' Enabling Dreams of Interstellar Travel?
“Routine travel among the stars is impossible without new discoveries regarding the fabric of space and time, or capability to manipulate...
Coming This Fall: "Galaxy Radio" To Be Integrated into The Daily Galaxy
As usually happens, we learned...
Eleven Elliptical Galaxies Found Flying Free in Space Beyond Their Home Clusters
Until 2006 scientists knew only 6 extremely compact elliptical galaxies like the Andromeda satellite...
Sunday, 26 April 2015
"Far-Reaching Implications" -An Ancient Solar System Almost as Old as the Milky Way (Weekend Feature)
"There are far-reaching implications for this discovery," said Tiago Campante, from the University of Birmingham's School of Physics and...
Saturday, 25 April 2015
NASA: "There Might Be Civilizations Existing in Cold Dark Space Beyond Galaxies" (Weekend Feature)
“There might be people living out there, out in the middle of cold dark space, that don't have a Milky Way,” says Harvey Moseley, an astrophysicist...
Friday, 24 April 2015
The Yellowstone Supervolcano --New Discovery: It's 4.4 Times Larger Than Thought Prior
University of Utah seismologists announced this week that they discovered and made images of a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock 12 to...
"The Miss-Lonely-Heart Galaxies of the Universe" -A New Class of Rogue Blob Ellipticals
We know of about two dozen runaway stars, and have even found one runaway star cluster escaping its galaxy forever. Now, astronomers have...
Thursday, 23 April 2015
"Alien Light" --A Key to the Discovery of Habitable Worlds
“We’re combining techniques to discover new information about how planets form, their range of properties and what sorts of planets are most...
Life on Tau Ceti? --"Geology is Fundamental to the Habitability of Planets"
The Tau Ceti system, popularized in several fictional works, including Star Trek, has long been used in science fiction, and even popular...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The Hubble Effect's 25th Anniversary --"A Radical Transformation of Our Perception of the Universe"
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science, wrote Edwin Hubble. "At the last dim...
"Hacking the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe" --Detecting Organic Molecules in Space
The terahertz region of the spectrum is chock-full of information. Everything in the universe that is warmer than about 10 degrees Kelvin...
The First Alien Planet Detected in Visible Light
A new technique has been developed that does not depend on finding a planetary transit, so it can potentially be used to study many more...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
"Earth May Have Experienced Dark-Matter Triggered Extinction Events" (Today's Most Popular)
"We are fortunate enough to live on a planet that is ideal for the development of complex life," says New York University Biology Professor...
Monday, 20 April 2015
"Supermassive Black Hole Exists Where It Shouldn't Be" --Inside a Blob Galaxy
Henize 2-10 is a small irregular galaxy that is not too far away in astronomical terms -- 30 million light-years. "This is a dwarf starburst...
"Pulsing Lights of the Universe" --May Signal Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
As two galaxies enter the final stages of merging, scientists have theorized that the galaxies' supermassive black holes will form a "binary,"...
Mystery of Largest Structure Ever Identified in the Universe --The Eridanus Supervoid and Cold Spot
Getting through a supervoid can take millions of years, even at the speed of light, so this measurable effect, known as the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe...
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