Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 NASA has recently reported the birth of a new star, captured by the new camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. The...
Alien Speculation Thursday, July 29th, 2010 For more videos, go to www.discoverynews.com. Will the real ET be little green men or little green bacteria? SETI Institute...
‘Ghost Particle’ Sized Up by Cosmologists Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Cosmologists at University College London (UCL), England, have recently reported a new calculation that led them one step...
Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 These columns that resemble stalagmites protruding from the floor of a cavern columns are in fact cool interstellar hydrogen...
'Catastrophic Event' Behind Halt of Star Birth Saturday, July 17th, 2010 Astronomers from Durham University have recently found evidence for a "catastrophic cosmic event" that is believed to be...
The outskirts of the Milky Way are not known for stellar activity, as the raw materials needed to build stars are sparse there. But Giovanni Carraro...
Light Continues 3 Years After Outburst Thursday, June 17th, 2010 V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years (6 kpc) from the...
Andromeda Galaxy Revealed Friday, June 11th, 2010 NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the...
Bully Galaxy Rules the Neighborhood Monday, June 7th, 2010 NASA astronomers are using an image of a galaxy named ESO 306-17 to learn more about the formation of star groups, galaxies...