His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Dr. Tomer Shenar, Guy Shtainer, Roey Ovadia & Zehava Katabi. A study led by Dr. Tomer Shenar from TAU's School of ...

The most ‘pristine’ star in the universe discovered by astronomers - Red giant star J0715-7334 is 20,000 times purer than the ...

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...

At first, Hubble thought the object was a nova, a type of exploding star, but a closer look revealed the star's light varied ... Astronomer Harlow Shapley thought the Milky Way constituted the entire ...