Cosmology
Effects of Einstein’s Elusive Gravitational Waves Observed
Two white dwarfs similar to those in the system SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 spiral together in this illustration from NASA. Credit: D.…
A New Species of Type Ia Supernova?
Artist’s conception of a binary star system that produces recurrent novae, and ultimately, the supernova PTF 11kx. (Credit: Romano Corradi…
Physicists Closing in on Understanding the Primordial Universe
Photo of the ALICE detector at CERN. Photo courtesy of CERN. Slamming barely nothing together is bringing scientists ever-closer to…
Winds of Change at the Edge of the Solar System
As the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft hurtles ever outward, breaking through the very borders of our solar system at staggering…
A Crinkle in the Wrinkle of Space-time
Albert Einstein's revolutionary general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature in the fabric of spacetime. Mathematicians at University…
Passing Through – A Beautiful Iceland Timelapse
This awesome video by Kristian Ulrich Larsen and Olafur Haraldsson melds the stark but beautiful landscape of Iceland, the words…
Hubble Spies Tiny, Ancient ‘Ghost Galaxies’
They're out there; tiny, extremely faint and incredibly ancient dwarf galaxies with so few stars that scientists call them 'ghost…
Dark Galaxies Found from the Early Universe
Caption: This deep image shows the region of the sky around the quasar HE0109-3518, near the center of the image.…
Life and Death in a Tangled Web of Space
In a star-making nebula awash in a tangled nest of gas and glowing filaments, scientists have uncovered an interesting, previously…
Galactic Gong – Milky Way Struck and Still Ringing After 100 Million Years
When galaxies collide, stars are thrown from orbits, spiral arms are stretched and twisted, and now scientists say galaxies ring…