universe

UK team plans 'unsent letter' to aliens

Posted in Featured, Science on 11th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

A network of UK researchers has decided to compose a message to aliens, but they are divided over whether such a message should be sent into space.

Lisa Pathfinder Experiment: Gravity quest set to go into orbit

Posted in Science on 5th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Lisa Pathfinder is a fundamental physics experiment that will test the technology needed to detect gravitational waves.

There are probably 1 to 10 billion earthlike planets in the Milky Way

Posted in Science on 31st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers combine constraints on galaxy formation with planet formation models, yielding the Earth-like and giant planet formation histories of the Milky Way and the Universe.

Ghostly Particles from Outer Space Detected in Antarctica

Posted in Featured, Science on 21st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and beyond the Milky Way.

New study tracks the death of our Universe

Posted in Science on 11th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

A new study has measured 200,000 galaxies in an effort to chart the rate at which our Universe is outputting energy, and effectively dying.