Scientists seek galaxy hunt help
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The Galaxy Zoo project wants the public to help it classify one million galaxies, to aid understanding of the evolution of the Universe.
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Astronomers use the Hubble telescope to reveal the effects of unseen dark matter as it tugs on galaxies in a crowded supercluster.
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Astronomers poring over the deepest image ever taken of the universe are coming to different conclusions about what made space transparent to light billions of years ago.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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To explore deeper into our solar system, maximum efficiencies may one day be extracted from sound waves. Los Alamos scientists have engine plans drawn up for making a big bang to push a pistonless drive forward.
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UK physicists finish a crucial element of a device that will probe the forces that shape our Universe.
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Tools from Google Earth and Amazon.com are being applied by users to help in the effort to find missing aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that indicate stars still are forming and supernovas still are exploding.
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Astronomers have found evidence for the most distant galaxies ever detected.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers are hunting an elusive target: rogue black holes that have been ejected from the centers of their home galaxies. Some doubted that the quarry could be spotted, since a black hole must be gobbling matter from an accretion disk in order for that matter to shine.
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Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope with a robot would cost &#36;2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace research group is advising NASA in the coming days.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably one of the greatest achievements of the space program, needs to be rescued. And astronauts should be sent to do the job.
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Extraterrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognize it, and scientists looking for alien life should be seeking the unfamiliar as well as the familiar, experts advised on Friday.
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The hunt for extraterrestrial life has a new tool: a system of "fingerprints" scientists will use to compare alien worlds with Earth as it has appeared over the eons.
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The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are joining forces to enhance astronomy.
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Scientists who have peered through space to a time when light first filled the universe urged NASA on Thursday to ensure a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission includes a next generation infrared camera.