Sounds like they're saying that the original stars may have been so massive that once their hydrogen cores ran out of hydrogen, they simply contracted...

Milky Way stars move in mysterious ways "Rather than moving in circles around the center of the Milky Way, all the stars in our Galaxy are travelling along...

Super-Earth Atmosphere May Be Mostly Water | Wired Science | Wired.com "The first direct measurement of a super-Earth exoplanet's atmosphere finds the world...

This is probably going to affect the estimates of Dark Matter in the universe too, though they aren't saying it yet. If 60% of the mass of a galaxy lies in...

SPACE.com -- Saturn's Rings May Be Remains of Ripped-Apart Moon "Saturn's famous rings are the last remaining shards of a huge moon the planet tore apart long...

"Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of...

BBC News - Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16178112

Physicists propose test for loop quantum gravity http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-physicists-loop-quantum-gravity.html "(PhysOrg.com) -- As a quantum...

Strange idea, but quite clever, though I doubt it'll work. First, you'll need to code the DNA in exactly certain ways, depending on its position in the grid....

Researcher says Earth's oceans 'homegrown' - UPI.com "Astronomers have long theorized that comets and asteroids delivered the water for the world's oceans...

New Kind of Light Created in Physics Breakthrough | Bose-Einstein Condensate | LiveScience "Physicists have created a new kind of light by chilling photons...

Looks like there's much in common between the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) and its more famous counterpart, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). They...

Although there's lots of good things about the star Chi Cygni in this article, the main headline doesn't seem to have much to do with this article. Go...

SPACE.com -- Black Hole's Mysterious Eating Disorder Solved "In the Chandra images, star clusters in the vicinity of the black hole are visible....

Of course, not mentioned in the article is the fact that this shape of "dark matter halo" matches the configuration one might see with MOND. Yousuf...

Here on Earth, it seems we would be screwed if our precious water wasn't protected by other molecules against UV radiation. We have our magnetic shield, our...

Star Keeps Magnetic Lock on Its Big Brother -- Berardelli 2010 (114): 3 -- ScienceNOW "In today's issue of Nature, a team of astronomers reports a...

Mike Jr wrote: "All of Ganymede's rock sank to its center the same way that all the chocolate chips sink to the bottom of a melted carton of ice cream." ...

The theory is called "HoYava Gravity". It suggests that at the quantum level, time is separate from space, but that they mingle together in the classical...

The following article got me thinking about neutrino detectors. The subject of the article itself is pretty fascinating in its own right, about...