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 have spotted a faint cluster of stars in or near our galaxy, but they're not sure what to call the grouping.
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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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The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.
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Scientists said on Wednesday that   they have found the most distant galaxy yet, nearly 13 billion   light-years away, in a discovery that could help explain how   stars were formed at the dawn of time.
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Billions of years after a galactic &quot;baby boom,&quot; a NASA (news - web sites) spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in Earth&#39;s part of the universe.
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We should be using probes to look for life in space instead of radio signals, say scientists.
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Astronomers now have a new &quot;eye&quot; for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy.
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Scientists expect to detect a lot more asteroid threats with new technology, but it's still not clear what anyone will do about them. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.
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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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BEIJING, Dec. 22 -- NASA telescope helped scientists discover that the aging universe might be brimming with massive &quot;infants&quot; galaxies.
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Astronomers are watching a galaxy rip to shreds, a finding that could help reveal how galaxies go from stellar riches to rags.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered larger and younger than expected galaxies. The NASA craft found three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that would indicate supernovas are still exploding.
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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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1m star clusters form consternation in night sky A group of scientists are looking for internet volunteers to take part in what they claim will be the largest galactic census ever compiled.â¦
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Scientists have high hopes for a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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NASA's Messenger probe sends scientists a treasure-trove of data, and with two more flybys and an orbital mission to follow, these images are just the beginning.