Universe
Caltech scientists predict greater longevity for planets with life
Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…
Research Team Discover New Tidal Debris from Colliding Galaxies
The research will be being presented during a press conference at the 214th annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California by Drs. Jin…
Researchers Find New Way to Measure Cosmic Distances
Ohio State University researchers have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by…
Freedman, Kennicutt, Mould Share 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The recipients of the 2009 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation are Wendy Freedman, director of the Observatories of the Carnegie…
Ghost Remains After Black Hole Eruption
This discovery presents astronomers with a valuable opportunity to observe phenomena that occurred when the Universe was very young. The X-ray ghost, so-called…
QUIET Team to Deploy New Gravity-Wave Probe in June
A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.During this inflationary…