The formation process involved two stages, said Mitchell Begelman, a professor and the chair of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed.

When targeting spiral galaxy bulges, astronomers often seek edge-on galaxies, as their bulges are more easily distinguishable from the disc.

Scientists have uncovered the first-known example of human bacteria infecting an animal species. Researchers at Edinburgh University have traced a serious infection in poultry back to a single human-to-animal jump. It occurred about 38 years ago,

Scientists are warning, "Genetically engineered vaccines possess significant unpredictability and a number of inherent harmful potential hazards."

USDA's National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is voting on whether nanotechnology should be banned from use in Organic products. Thanks to your overwhelming outcry

A chilling story with a smash-hit ending! Follow the life of Harley D. Haworth who has everything, except a trump card against death. Gambling his vast fortune he turns the tables on the grim reaper of finality, entering a strange and different world~~~~

Since the fabric of space/time is known to be expanding and accelerating, then the force lines of time are stretching, causing time to accelerate. If we could measure this change with a ruler, and since that ruler is changing also, we would see no change!

In Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird adds stones to raise the water level in a pitcher in order to drink from it. Rooks, a relative of the crow, use stones to raise the level of water in a container to reach a floating worm.

Just as CERN finished repairing the damage last September's Large Hadron Collider helium leak, a new problem cropped up. Engineers discovered two vacuum leaks in areas of the enormous atom smasher that are supposed to be maintained at ultracold