Space & PhysicsApril 24, 2011
Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals
Galaxies
Space & PhysicsApril 22, 2011
What makes the luminous star known as Object X look so dim?
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Space & PhysicsApril 22, 2011
A rose is a...galaxy collision: Hubble sends the people of Earth a flower on its 21st anniversary
This image of two interacting galaxies, called Arp 273, has been released by the organization that operates the Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 21st anniversary of its launch into space.
April 6, 2011
How Cosmic Inflation Creates an Infinity of Universes [Video]
Space & PhysicsApril 1, 2011
The Inflation Debate
Is the theory at the heart of modern cosmology deeply flawed?
March 9, 2011
String Query: Physicists Prove to Be of Many Minds about a Unified Theory of the Universe
Is there a theory of everything? If so, is it possible to verify via experimentation? These and other questions energized a panel of physicists and their audience at this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History
Space & PhysicsMarch 2, 2011
Cosmological crowd-sourcing: Amateur's nebula pic wins ESO astro-image competition
Astronomy buffs know that the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a conglomerate of 15 European countries that operates three observing sites in Chile, is a font of awesome space images .
TechnologyMarch 1, 2011
Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar
Researchers find success using a massive distributed computing network to search radio waves for pulsars. In the coming decade they hope to find evidence of gravitational waves
Space & PhysicsMarch 1, 2011
Scrivener to the Stars: Keeping Tabs on All the Exoplanets
A Parisian astronomer tells how he became the unofficial record keeper of exoplanets and when we'll stop discovering new ones
Space & PhysicsFebruary 18, 2011
Some supermassive black holes may not be so super after all
Space & PhysicsFebruary 14, 2011
Twisted Light Could Enable Black Hole Detection
Rotating black holes should put a spin on the light passing by them, potentially allowing astronomers a new way to gauge their properties
Space & PhysicsFebruary 2, 2011
A Wealth of Worlds: Kepler Spacecraft Finds 6 New Exoplanets and Hints at 1,200 More
A newfound planetary system has six worlds, five of which rank among the smallest known, and the list of unconfirmed candidates has swelled to four figures