Astronomy - Page 68

March 7, 2018

A 'living dead' star that could shed light on the early universe

Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's

March 6, 2018

Stephen Hawking says he knows what happened before the dawn of time

It's the biggest question in the universe. What happened before the Big Bang? Now world-famous physicist Steven Hawking says he has an answer.

March 1, 2018

Cosmic dawn: Astronomers find fingerprints of universe's first stars

The cosmic dark ages lasted no more than 180 million years.

March 1, 2018

The universe's first stars may reveal a big clue about dark matter

A big clue about the nature of mysterious dark matter may have been discovered.

February 27, 2018

The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Hubble data suggests

Recent Hubble Space Telescope findings suggest that the universe is expanding much faster than expected — and astronomers say the rules of physics may need to be rewritten in order to understand why.

February 26, 2018

The world's luckiest photographer may have proved astrophysicists right

On a September night in Argentina, amateur astronomer Victor Buso took his camera outside, mounted it on a 16-inch telescope and trained it on a spiral galaxy some 80 million light-years from Earth.

February 26, 2018

Are supermassive black holes going to eat the universe?

The largest black holes grow faster than their galaxies, according to new research.

February 22, 2018

Proposed exomoon defies formation theories

Last summer, scientists announced that they had found what could be the first moon to be spotted outside of the solar system.

February 15, 2018

Photographer catches 'Boogie Man Nebula' lurking behind light pollution

The "Boogie Man Nebula" haunts the cosmos in this deep-space image by astrophotographer Jeff Johnson.

February 8, 2018

Astronomers detect a swarm of tiny objects orbiting alien sun

There are tiny comets orbiting foreign suns.