- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- September 12th, 2015
Mammoth Galaxy Cluster Discovered 9.8 Billion Light-Years Away
The cluster holds the mass equivalent to 400 trillion Suns
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 24th, 2015
Runaway Galaxies Are Racing at 6 Million MpH (9.6 Million Km/H)
The runaway galaxies were flung out of their cluster, are now exiles aimlessly racing through the cosmos
- Weekly Round-up
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 16th, 2015
Top 10 Coolest Science News of the Week: February 9-15, 2015
In case you've had a rather hectic week and missed them, here are the best science announcements of the past few days
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 10th, 2015
Hubble Sees Seriously Creepy Smiley Face in Outer Space
The smiley face has two orange eyes and a white button nose, some say it looks like a cosmic emoticon
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- August 1st, 2014
Newly Discovered Distant Galaxy Acts as a Cosmic Magnifying Glass
The galaxy is said to be the farthest lensing galaxy thus far documented by science
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 25th, 2014
Mass of Distant Galaxy Cluster Is 160 Trillion Times That of Our Sun
The cluster's mass was mapped with the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- May 22nd, 2014
Scientists Confirm the Existence of Distant Galaxy Cluster
The galaxy cluster is estimated to be about 9.9 billion light years away
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 5th, 2014
Runaway Dandelion Galaxy Lives Fast and Furiously
The formation is losing gas at an alarming rate due to its speed
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 8th, 2014
Massive Star Cluster Doubling as Galactic Lens – Photo
This beautiful image was collected by NASA's flagship telescope
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 31st, 2013
Iron in Our Blood May Have Come from Other Galaxies
Experts find iron permeated the Cosmos 10 billion years ago
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- June 27th, 2012
Massive Galactic Arc Found in Early Universe
The structure is located billions of light-years away
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 10th, 2012
Awesome Barred Galaxy Captured in Hubble Photo
The structure goes by the easy-to-remember name NGC 1483
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- September 30th, 2008
Maximum Weight of Massive Black Holes Established
Astronomers at Yale set a limit for how big black holes can actually get
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- June 10th, 2008
Hubble Pictures the Coma Cluster
The cluster contains mostly elliptic galaxies
- Space
- By Gabriel Gache
- May 20th, 2008
New Telescope Camera Will Search for Wandering Stars
Burrel Schmidt telescope will study the evolution of the Virgo galaxy cluster