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Scientists Discover Oldest Oxygen Ever Found

By Dipannita - Jun 21, 2016 09:59 AM EDT

A team of scientists has discovered traces of oxygen in a galaxy located billions of years away. To be precise, the galaxy in which the oldest molecule of oxygen has been discovered is located 13.1 billion light years away.

Scientists Discover Gravitation Waves For The Second Time This Year

By Dipannita - Jun 16, 2016 04:36 PM EDT

History has been created yet again. A team of scientists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) has discovered signs of gravitational waves. The breakthrough has been achieved for the second time in 2016.

Black Holes May Be Exits to another Universe, Stephen Hawking Says

By Jenn Loro - Jun 09, 2016 11:28 AM EDT

In a paper recently published in peer-reviewed Physical Review Letters, Stephen Hawking and his co-authors suggested that black holes may potentially lead to another universe. The paper contradicts the idea that black holes have ‘no hair’ saying that a so-called ‘halo of hair’ captures low-energy quantum excitations.

Universe is Expanding At An Enormous Rate

By Dipannita - Jun 07, 2016 01:44 PM EDT

The universe is expanding and it is one of the facts about the cosmic space that probably everyone knows by now. In fact, the universe has been expanding since the Bing Bang happened more than 13.5 billion years ago.

Our World Is Not Real But Is An Alien's Simulation: Cosmologist

By R. Siva Kumar - Apr 24, 2016 10:00 AM EDT

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson opines that the universe is probably just a huge simulation, which contains everything we know of as reality. How far could this be true?

Saturn Cassini Spacecraft Studies Interstellar Dust From Beyond The Solar System

By R. Siva Kumar - Apr 16, 2016 07:43 AM EDT

Scientists are studying the chemical composition of dust beyond our solar system. It might get homogenized by interstellar space 'stew', they surmise.

Astronomers Find New Star With Record Variation Period

By R. Siva Kumar - Mar 20, 2016 11:26 AM EDT

Experts have located a new star with a record variation period of about 69 years.

From Afar In Space And Time Ancient Galaxy Rattles Early Universe Science

By Peter R - Sep 10, 2015 02:12 PM EDT

The galaxy EGS8p7 is 13.2 billion years old. Its discovery could get scientists to rethink theories explaining early universe post Big Bang.

How The Universe's Oldest Known Galaxy Defied Odds To Shine 13.2 Billion Years Ago

By Peter R - Sep 07, 2015 08:58 AM EDT

Researchers spotted EGS8p7 which is the oldest and farthest known galaxy from Earth.

Alien Life Could Soon Come Within Earth's Sight: Study

By Peter R - Aug 28, 2015 02:44 PM EDT

Researchers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggested that in a generation or so we would be able to signs of life on distant planets.

Stephen Hawking: Black Holes Are Not Points of No-Return

By Peter R - Aug 26, 2015 01:37 PM EDT

Hawking was delivering a talk at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm when he mentioned that information may not be destroyed by a black hole.

As Stars Lose Shine, Universe's Death Approaches

By Peter R - Aug 12, 2015 03:23 PM EDT

A new study claims that energy from galaxies is just about half as much as it was two billion years ago, indicating that the universe is ageing and will eventually exhaust all energy within.

Mini Black Holes In LHC Could Consume Universe: Study

By Peter R - Aug 04, 2015 01:33 AM EDT

The study however claims that such black holes may not succeed in consuming the universe.

Exploding Star Explains Lithium Presence In Universe

By Peter R - Jul 29, 2015 07:52 PM EDT

Until recently, the amounts of lithium known to exist in the universe was not explainable by direct observations. Astronomers were also unaware why younger stars had more lithium than older stars.

Ginormous Black Holes Hidden In Dense Clouds: NASA

By Peter R - Jul 08, 2015 08:12 AM EDT

Discovery of five supermassive black holes recently has led astronomers to believe that there could be millions of them across the universe.

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