The most energetic particles in the universe have regained some of their former mystery. Last year, it seemed that the origin of these particles had finally been tracked down to a set of giant black holes in nearby galaxies, but a new study casts doubt on that conclusion picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Yet she's a leading finalist. picked by cb__ 7 months ago

The recordings were made probably in 1977, the year when Hugh Everett presented his idea about parallel worlds at a physics conference. The calculation performed by the physicist stated that whenever quantum mechanics mentioned that a particle was spotted in 2 places at once, the universe divides. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Huge filaments of dark matter have been detected in a survey of thousands of distant galaxies. The discovery supports the idea that dark matter drove the formation of galaxies and larger cosmic structures and resolves a discrepancy in previous studies about how much dark matter the universe contains. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The late great Carl Sagan was a very wise man. He also had some brilliant things to say about religious beliefs picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Richard Dawkins, Cambridge prof., talks about atoms, space and other "things universal," at the TED Conferences. Long, but extremely interesting and well worth listening too. picked by ogri2003 2 years ago

Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The scales encountered in our everyday lives, light is so fast that we perceive our surroundings in real time. Look up into the night sky and this illusion begins to falter. "Because light takes time to get here from there, the farther away 'there' is, the further in the past light left there, and so we see all objects at some time in the past." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Arabic, Latin, English, Hebrew, Aramaic and Persian are all well known languages, but can there be a language that predates humanity itself by millions of years?

It's only the genetic code, but still an interesting article picked by lostsoul135 1 year ago

For years scientists have wrestled with a puzzling fact: The universe appears to be remarkably suited for life. Its physical properties are finely tuned to permit our existence. Stars, planets and the kind of sticky chemistry that produces fish, ferns and folks wouldn't be possible if some of the cosmic constants were only slightly different. Well, there's another property of the universe that's e... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Future generations could be travelling across the universe faster than the speed of light, without breaking any astronomical road rules, by manipulating extra dimensions of space and time, according to two US physicists. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

15-year-olds start sending letters to Angelina Jolie. picked by Wingnut 3 years ago

Two Canadian astronomers think there is a good reason dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up the bulk of matter in the universe, has never been directly detected: It doesn't exist. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In a fitting irony, the static that once bothered scientists trying to tune in to the universe has turned out to be an incredibly rich source of information about it. picked by karenben 1 year ago

Astronomers working on BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) study have determined that dust-enshrouded galaxies several billion light years away hide about half of the starlight in the Universe from Earth's view. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Ever wanted to fly between the stars? Check out the rivers on Mars? Follow a comet as it flys around the sun? Zoom out and watch the entire galaxy from afar? Now you can! You can search anything, follow, zoom, speed/slow time and it's easy to use, just like Google Earth. picked by Boomshank 3 years ago

Like Google Earth but for the universe; you can whiz round the galaxies, solar systems and the planets.
Also check out the Add Ons to add sci-fi objects to the universe.

Original post by Boomshank. picked by TheStep 3 years ago

Almost everybody likes speed. The thought of going faster than anyone else has inspired man: everything from countless drag racing movie scenes to the use of steroids in pursuit of the title of “World’s Fastest Human”. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago