Cosmology
Messier 106: Amateur and Professional Astronomers Join Together to Peer Into the Eyes of Creation
Nearly four million light years away in the direction of the constellation of Canes Venatici, a visage of creation awaited…
Super Good at Collecting Data, Massive Science Balloon Breaks Records
Super-TIGER prepares for launch from Antarctica. NASA's Super-TIGER science balloon landed Friday at a frigid and remote base in Antarctica…
Book Review: Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries
“Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries” is Louis A. Del Monte’s contribution to the world of science writing. If you haven’t heard…
The Face of Creation
The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell's Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done…
New Study Shows Cosmic Rays Could Cause Alzheimer’s
Humans explore Mars in "Distant Shores," an illustration by NASA artist Pat Rawlins Cosmic rays from deep space could pose…
Podcast: Cosmological Constant
In order to allow for a static Universe, Albert Einstein introduced the concept of the Cosmological Constant Lambda to make…
Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize
Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider's underground tunnel at Europe's CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and…
Do We Really Need Dark Matter?
Hubble mosaic of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, thought to be connected by a filament of dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
Pale Blue Dot: an Animated Contemplation
Every now and then, someone takes Carl Sagan's wonderful reading of his iconic "Pale Blue Dot" narrative and turns it…
The Brightest Galaxies in the Universe Were Invisible… Until Now
Hubble images of six of the starburst galaxies first found by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (Keck data shown below each…