TechnologyFebruary 1, 2011
X-Ray Vision: NASA's NuSTAR Telescope
Thanks to amazing nested mirrors, NASA's NuSTAR telescope is set to reveal hidden phenomena in the cosmos
Galaxies
Space & PhysicsJanuary 26, 2011
Olden Gaze: Galaxy in Hubble Image May Be the Most Distant Object Ever Seen
Peering back to just 500 million years after the big bang, researchers have located what looks to be a galaxy in the infant universe
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Space & PhysicsJanuary 11, 2011
Planck Telescope Sees Universe's Cool Stuff
First data release yields 'treasure trove' of information on galaxies -- including our own.
Space & PhysicsJanuary 9, 2011
Hole's on First?: New Evidence Shows Black Hole Growth Preceding Galactic Formation
An accidental find in a star-forming dwarf galaxy shows that black holes may mature early in galaxy evolution
Space & PhysicsJanuary 7, 2011
The universe is no fluke, Pope Benedict XVI says
Space & PhysicsDecember 30, 2010
Reliance on Indirect Evidence Fuels Dark Matter Doubts
Pinning down the universe's missing mass remains one of cosmology's biggest challenges
December 29, 2010
Habitable and not-so-habitable exoplanets: How the latter can tell us more about our origins than the former
The SciencesDecember 23, 2010
World's Largest Neutrino Detector Completed at South Pole
With 86 strings of detectors reaching down 2.5 kilometers into Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory is now finished
December 1, 2010
It's Even More Full of Stars
The discovery that elliptical galaxies have many more red dwarf stars than the Milky Way means that the universe might have three times as many total stars as previously thought. Cynthia Graber reports
Space & PhysicsNovember 24, 2010
Distant Galaxies Confirm Dark Energy's Existence and Universe's Flatness
The orientation of hundreds of galactic pairs provides a new test of the standard cosmological view
November 18, 2010
Forgotten dreams? A call to investigate the mysteries of humanity
Space & PhysicsNovember 18, 2010
Extragalactic Expat: Newfound Exoplanet Likely Came from Another Galaxy
Astronomers locate an oddball exoplanet that orbits a star from a cannibalized galaxy