Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published...
Dark Matter Halos? How About Disks, Too Scientists are trying to understand the invisible and hypothetical 'dark matter' – the stuff that we know exists by...
Scientists funded to design concepts for NASA microgravity experiments 18.09.2008 Two University of Leicester scientists have recently been awarded $10,000 to...
LHC progress report, week 1 Geneva, 18 September 2008. After a spectacular start on 10 September, the LHC enjoyed a mixed first week of commissioning with...
Explosion From Edge of Universe Seen An explosion originating near the edge of the universe has been seen by an orbiting NASA telescope. The burst of gamma...
Malfunction Halts LHC Particle Accelerator Experiment Repairs for broken LHC transformer may have been costly Despite protests and even death threats to the...
Briefing: ‘The God machine’ What on earth is this machine? It is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator. Built at the...
"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe DynaSoar writes "NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe...
NASA at 50: still taking science to the limit WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (AFP) Sep 25, 2008 In 50 years, NASA has earned itself an unparalleled reputation as an...
LHC shuts down temporarily Particle research to resume once Hadron Collider is back up and running Hanna Johnson Scientists at the European Organization for...
Week in science: LHC delays, bouncing DNA, and a strange dark flow in the universe Science and politics rarely seem to be cleanly separated, and the distance...
Large Hadron Collider's super computer network could cut download times A network of super computers that could revolutionise the speed of the internet,...
Getting to zero gravity in Houston Stephannie Furtak Contributing Reporter Published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 After months of hard work last year, five...
NASA at 50 Not long ago, when most of us weren’t looking, the space age reached middle age. It’s been 39 years since the first moon landing, 43 since the...
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. The good news,...
Space travel: The urban spaceman Richard Garriott grew up surrounded by astronauts, keeps two Sputniks in his home, and claims to own the Moon. And next week,...
'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new space race is officially underway, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks...
Three Physicists Share Nobel Prize 2008 An American and two Japanese physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work exploring the hidden...
Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance...
Fermilab and symmetry breaking October 8, 2008 | 11:01 am Yesterday we reported on the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. Here is an article that connects...
The Universe Is Not Expanding Uniformly A few weeks ago, researchers announced the discovery of a "dark flow" of invisible matter tugging at distant galaxy...
The Day The World Didn't End The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not...
Opinion: Physics Appreciates ‘Thoughtful’ Title IX Review By Edmund Bertschinger October 7, 2008 In an opinion piece published several weeks ago, Gary Shu...
Send Your Name Around The Earth on NASA's Glory Mission WASHINGTON, Sept 25, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Members of the public can send their...