Tag: Universe

Talk about a giant in the universe.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to realise the abundance of hydrogen in the stars and the universe at large. ...

Astronomers used multiple telescopes to confirm the double quasars.

It's stunning what you can produce with enough computational power.

If galaxies were human, GN-z11 would want you to get off its lawn.

This immense simulation is so complex that scientists have observed phenomena that had not been programmed explicitly in the code.

The breakthrough validates our current models of how the universe works.

The number of photons emitted into space is 4 followed by 84 zeroes. Now, that a moment to wrap that ...

What is being seen is that the universe is expanding faster nearby than we would expect based on more distant ...

We've learned a lot about the early universe.

It was floating around where we estimated it would be.

The Universe is flat, according to modern research. But what does that mean?

We may have dramatically underestimated what lies in the Universe.

Seeing is believing.

Zoom out far enough, and the Universe is a pretty homogenous place.

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is ...

Scientists have completed the most precise measurement of the Universe's rate of expansion to date; but the result just isn't ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope jointly used their instruments to identify the oldest galaxy yet seen. ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest known stars lurking in a super-luminous galaxy - they may very well be among the ...

A team of astronomers from Yale and the University of California-Santa Cruz have looked back in time, discovering a galaxy ...

Many people change a lot after their youth... and so to did our Universe. Nowadays, galaxies contain both dust and ...

Climate change is a threat to all life and vegetation here on Earth, but some places are worse off than ...

A newly published study has revealed that dark matter is being swallowed up by dark energy, offering valuable data not only ...

The Illustris project took 5 years of software development and 3 months running on 8000 processors - but it sure was ...

Artist impression of BOSS map, complete with a view of the intergalactic 'ruler'. (c) BOSS A new map of a ...

In a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity clashes with quantum physics; for decades, scientists have tried to find ...

It is currently believed that we live in a lopsided Universe: cosmologists reached this conclusion by examining the detailed structure ...

Cosmic microwave background seen by Planck. (c) ESA Using the incredible  Planck cosmology probe astronomers at the European Space Agency have assembled ...

A metal poor star located in the Milky Way galaxy, "just" 190 light years away from our Sun is 14.46+-0.80 ...

So, remember that Higgs boson discovery we got all excited about a while ago? You know, validated the Standard model, ...

A startling study, which looked at data 10 times more comprehensive compared to previous similar efforts, found that half of all ...

This is a still image from a video fly-through of the SDSS-III galaxies mapped in Data Release 9. (c) SDSS ...

Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like  gas dust ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar known so far, dubbed ULAS J1120+0641, powered by a supermassive black hole with a ...

While a 3D map of the Universe using the light from 14,000 quasars has been previously released to the public ...

Unveiled this past weekend, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have created a 3D map of the Universe using ...

I was quite pleasantly surprised by Universe in a Sandbox. It is one of the best pieces of software I've ...

A new study suggests that a blunder of cosmic proportions has been made when estimating the total number of stars ...

Two studies put Einstein's theory, the General Theory of Relativity to a test unlike any other before. The two teams ...

The Coma Galaxy, a galaxy directly involved in the so called dark flow Two years ago, researchers reported the strange ...

Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope has shown something that scientists concluded is the signature of the explosion of the object furthest ...

A few days ago, something remarkable has been captured by NASA's telescopes, as an unusual set of Gamma rays were ...