Astronomy
Estimating the Age of the Milky Way
Here's a question that's surprisingly difficult to answer: how old is the Milky Way? A team of astronomers have used…
Evidence for Planets Around a Young Star
An astronomer from the University of Hawaii has captured a detailed image of a dust disk around a new star;…
Star Clusters Could Be Galaxy Remnants
Globular star clusters - groupings of millions stars in close formation - are some of the most beautiful objects in…
Dying Star Leaves a Ring Behind
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this image of a dying star in the middle of a doughnut of leftover gas…
Dwarf Galaxies Have Been Through a Lot
Astronomers used to believe that dwarf irregular galaxies were leftover building blocks from the beginning of the Universe which somehow…
Closer, Dimmer Gamma Ray Burst Spotted
The European Space Agency's Integral probe detected a gamma ray burst in December 2003, which has now been studied by…
Our Solar System Could Be Special
Researchers from the UK believe that our Solar System could have formed differently from many other star systems, making places…
New Differences Between Matter and Antimatter
Particle physicists believe they have uncovered the reason why our Universe favours matter, instead of being made up of equal…
Young Stars Thrown Out of the Nursery
Astronomers have tracked a fast moving binary pair of objects back to the original stellar nursery that they were ejected…
Neutrino Mass Linked to Dark Energy
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a theory which links together Dark Energy - the mysterious force that's…