Astronomy
Seeing the Planks in Einstein’s Cross
All Quasar's have black holes for hearts - but that doesn't mean they are unfriendly. In fact, 9 billion light…
Ripples in Spacetime Could Explain Dark Energy
An international team of astrophysicists have developed a new theory to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe, known as…
Dark Energy in our Galactic Neighbourhood
Astronomers have known since 1998 that a mysterious force seems to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe. An international…
Robot Finds Life in the Desert
A hardy robot from Carnegie Mellon has found life in Chile's Atacama desert; one of the driest and most lifeless…
Helium-Richest Stars Found
European astronomers have found a group of stars in the Omega Centauri globular cluster which seem to be some of…
Probing the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Thanks to data collected by NASA's WMAP probe in 2001 and 2002, plus the hard work of astrophysicists, we now…
Galaxies in the Early Universe Came in Every Flavour
It appears that galaxies in the early Universe didn't evolve at similar speeds or in the same ways. Almost right…
Detector Ready to Receive Beam of Neutrinos
Scientists have begun firing a beam of neutrinos through the Earth to a target 735 km (456 miles) away. This…
New Kind of Object Discovered?
Radio astronomers have detected a series of powerful radio wave blasts from near the centre of the Milky Way that…
Sideways Motion of a Galaxy Measured
Imagine you had a telescope powerful enough to watch a snail crawling across the surface of Mars. Divide that speed…