Sep 05 2010
Stephen Hawking is Such a Troublemaker
The renowned physicist has just published a book stating that God is not required to create the Universe, just physics.
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Aug 27 2010
Space Station Particle Detector Arrives for Launch
What may end up being the crown jewel of the International Space Station landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday to begin preparations for launch on the last shuttle mission in February.
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Aug 24 2010
Probing the Dark Side of the Universe
The cosmos is expanding at an accelerated rate due to a mysterious force called dark energy. Are we getting close to understanding its true nature?
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Aug 16 2010
Phantom Universe: Next Biggest Mystery
A decade ago it would have been hard to predict what would have made it to the top of the list of cosmic mysteries now confronting astronomers.
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Aug 16 2010
Why Don’t We See White Holes in Space?
We see evidence for black holes in space, but there hasn't been any observational evidence yet of white holes.
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Jul 24 2010
The Search for Dark Energy has a New Weapon
What is causing the Universe to expand at an accelerated rate? Astronomers have demonstrated a new technique with the largest fully-steerable radio telescope to attack this enduring problem.
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Jul 16 2010
The Large Hadron Collider, Now in Comic Form
A new comic has been published, written by actor LeVar Burton (of Star Trek fame), chronicling the adventures of a time traveling super hero... and the LHC.
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Jul 01 2010
‘Immigrants’ Make Up Galaxy’s Oldest Stars
Many of the Milky Way's oldest stars are refugees from other older galaxies that were torn apart by collisions.
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May 31 2010
Antimatter Matters: Fermilab Glimpses ‘The Toe of God’
Did you miss the big news from Fermilab last week? It seems that a bunch of proton-anti-proton collisions exhibit a slight asymmetry in the number of muons produced compared to anti-muons.
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May 23 2010
Megamasers: Distant Water and Precision Cosmology
Measuring the distances to objects in space is surprisingly hard, especially when looking at galaxies. Enter the Megamaser Cosmology Project, a technique that's taking the uncertainty out of galactic distances.
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