May 19 2011
NASA Installs Cosmic Ray Hunter on Space Station
A new tool to look at the universe debuted Thursday, with the installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, nicknamed AMS, on the International Space Station.
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May 16 2011
Endeavour Blasts Off in Next-to-Last Shuttle Flight
The shuttle is delivering a potent physics experiment to probe the origins of the universe.
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May 04 2011
Dark Matter Debate Heats Up… Again
Has dark matter been detected? Is dark matter really varying with the seasons? Possibly.
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Apr 22 2011
LHC Smashes ‘Beam Intensity’ World Record
CERN's powerful accelerator has pushed particle physics into a new, powerful era.
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Apr 14 2011
Mysterious Pioneer Anomaly May Finally Be Solved
The debate over a measured deceleration in our Pioneer and Voyager deep space probes may be reaching a climax.
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Mar 21 2011
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Just after the Big Bang, the Universe's dimensions may have been completely different to the four-dimensional space-time we know and love today.
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Mar 21 2011
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Just after the Big Bang, the Universe's dimensions may have been completely different to the four-dimensional space-time we know and love today.
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Feb 23 2011
How Low Can a Dark Matter Halo Go?
Astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have developed a clever way of tracking halos of dark matter by looking at starburst galaxies in the furthest most reaches of the Universe.
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Jan 26 2011
Of Aliens, Dark Matter, and Poe’s Law
Could dark matter be... alien life? If a letter in the New York Times is to be believed, then, yes.
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Dec 23 2010
IceCube Complete Just in Time for Christmas
Physicists around the globe affiliated with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory project received an early Christmas present last weekend. IceCube is complete!
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