Universe
Cosmic lenses support finding on faster than expected expansion of the Universe Galaxies as lenses
The Hubble constant — the rate at which the Universe is expanding — is one of the fundamental quantities describing our Universe. A group of astronomers, the…
Supernova iron found on the moon
A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the…
Putting the Universe on the Scales
On April 18, 2015, a fast radio burst or FRB was detected by the 64-m Parkes radio telescope of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research…
Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National…
Probing the Secrets of the Universe Inside a Metal Box
The Standard Model of particle physics, sometimes called “The Theory of Almost Everything,” is the best set of equations to date that describes the universe's…
Dark matter even darker than once thought
Astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied how dark matter in clusters of…