Universe

Quark-gluon plasma flows like water, study

The ratio between the viscosity of a fluid, the measure of how runny it is, and its density, decides how it flows.

Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution

The first three years of survey data use observations of 226 million galaxies over â…› of the sky.

Reconciling cosmological theory and observations of the Universe

The Universe is hotter than expected.

New details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang

Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of the universe, as we know it today.

Most ancient galaxy of its kind ever observed

It has a spiral morphology by only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang.

Iron and Nickel found in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System

A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has shown that iron and...

Why solar wind does not cool down as fast as expected?

Simulating the solar wind.

Astronomers captured new images of Jupiter in different colors

By Jove! Jupiter Shows Its Stripes and Colors.

Doubling the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions

Supernovae Twins Open Up New Possibilities for Precision Cosmology.

New all-sky map of Milky Way’s outer reaches

Simulation of dark matter in the milky way halo.

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