Thorough astronomical observations have revealed that the long-held belief that states that spiral galaxies form over time, through various shape...

The period of time from the Big Bang to the just 300,000 years later is supposed to be the time of the Dark Ages, when the universe was opaque, as hydrogen...

SPACE.com -- Boomerang-Shaped Galaxy Reveals Clues to Colossal Clusters "The newfound galaxy resides in an intergalactic filament discovered in 2008 using...

Scientists have detected a sudden and dramatic slowdown in the rotation of Earth's sister planet Venus. Data from the European Space Agency's Venus...

Black hole came from a shredded galaxy - Astronomy Magazine http://www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=5786db75-abf8-4bf4-9274-e2e044ac48b6 "Astronomers using...

http://www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=0d68927e-081b-4142-a089-17f391112488 "Astronomers have crowned spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest-known spiral based...

They are protogalaxies because they have few or no stars yet, just a collection of gas. Might be how the original galaxies started in the aftermath of the...

http://www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=418c617f-ff97-4a7c-b34b-6f6c72ae6049 "Scientists have found that this object, whose radio emission is known to...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147110-physicists-create-worlds-first-multiverse-of-universes-in-the-lab "While this is rather extraordinary, the...

"Paul Fishbane, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Virginia, is making a bit of a stretch when he compares a nascent right-wing attack on...

On 08/11/2010 4:54 PM, palsing wrote: If we use the oft-quoted galactic radius as being about 50 million light years, the sun is about 30 million from the...

For two years, Evans has been comparing several dozen galaxies whose black holes host powerful jets (these galaxies are known as radio-loud active galactic...

Looks like the entourage of stars that orbit close to a galactic black hole are there for a reason. They shepherd gas in towards the black hole. Yousuf...

Earth's weak magnetic field helped Sun to steal water from planet's early atmosphere - Oneindia News "Scientists have discovered that the Earth's magnetic...

Massive Galaxy Exploded Every Second for Millions of Years - Its ability to produce new stars was completely hindered - Softpedia "An international group of...

This seems to be a very well done documentary about the latest developments in cosmology, and the theories behind it. It even discusses the recently unveiled...

Something that puzzles me is that if according to the theory of inflation, the universe experienced a period of inflation immediately following the Big Bang,...

The sterile neutrino has been suggested as one of the earliest candidates for Dark Matter. The interesting thing about it is that it would also be completely...

UK Scientists Celebrate Mini Big Bangs As Lead Ion Collides "At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting...

http://is.gd/yr49bP "A newfound world called Kepler 37 b could easily blend in to the long and growing list of known extrasolar planets, given its...