• Reinventing Discovery reviews abound

    Updated: 2012-06-30 16:52:18
    A video book review of Michael Nielsen's Reinventing Discovery: And if you're more into print, here's a review in Australia's Inside Story magazine. If those pique your interest, try reading this free chapter from Reinventing Discovery.

  • Black Hole Growth Found to be Out of Synch

    Updated: 2012-06-11 06:00:00
    New results based on these two objects are challenging the prevailing ideas as to how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

  • Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:59:24
    A team of scientists who last year suggested neutrinos could travel faster than light have conceded that Einstein was right and the sub-atomic particles are – like everything else – bound by the universe’s speed limit.

  • ONLY TWO COSMIC DOOMSDAYS ARE CERTAIN

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:50:54
    The sardonic proverb “nothing is certain but death and taxes,” can now be recast for the cosmos. Last week’s announcement of the inevitable collision of the Andromeda galaxy with the Milky Way is one of only two apocalyptic astronomical predictions that we can be absolutely certain of. The other is the death of our sun. [...]

  • Future Shock: M31 to Hit Milky Way Head-On

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:40:26
    Astronomers have long known that the Andromeda Galaxy is headed our way. Now they’ve concluded that it most likely will collide with the Milky Way head-on — with dramatic consequences.

  • NASA kills X-ray telescope, blames project’s cost

    Updated: 2012-06-08 20:09:29
    NASA killed a new X-ray telescope mission on Thursday, two years before its planned launch. The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission, or GEMS for short, was supposed to blast off in 2014 to study black holes and neutron stars. But external reviews found the project would likely come in considerably over budget.

  • Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-06-04 06:00:00
    The galaxy at the center of this image contains an Xray source, CID-42, with exceptional properties.

  • A Pinwheel in Many Colors

    Updated: 2012-05-24 06:00:00
    This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes.

  • Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making

    Updated: 2012-05-09 06:00:00
    Galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their cores produce fewer stars.

  • Black Hole Caught Red-handed in a Stellar Homicide

    Updated: 2012-05-03 06:00:00
    A galaxy about 2.7 billion light years from Earth with a supermassive black hole at its center.

  • A New View of the Tarantula Nebula

    Updated: 2012-04-17 06:00:00
    A massive star-forming region located about 160,000 light years away.

  • Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster

    Updated: 2012-04-12 06:00:00
    A merger of galaxy clusters about 5.2 billion light years from Earth.

Current Feed Items | Previous Months Items

May 2012 | Apr 2012 | Mar 2012 | Feb 2012 | Jan 2012 | Dec 2011