It is traditionally believed that our universe was formed approximately 13 billion years ago after the infamous Big Bang. But why did it happen and what was before it? Employees of Astro Space Center of the Physics Institute (ASC FIAN), Vladimir Lukash and Vladimir Strokov believe that the answer to this question can be a black hole. It is nearly impossible to get any reliable information about the... 

The ALMA radio telescope has taken its first photograph of the Antennae Galaxies from the observatory in Chile (pictured) telescope. Click on the image to enlarge it. To boldly show: World’s most expensive telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe. This is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high... 

Scientists working on the Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment may have recorded evidence of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) – a crucial step towards solving the mystery of ‘dark matter’, a material thought to make up the huge majority of the matter in the universe, but which is extremely difficult to detect. WIMPs are bodies... 

Duília de Mello, Brazilian researcher at NASA, will talk about blue bubbles, isolated stars outside of galaxies. Rio is again the scene of debates on the latest discoveries in astronomy from the workshop of the series “The Evolving Universe”, PUC-Rio, that from 15-19 August will feature more than 40 lectures by researchers from South America, the U.S. and Europe. The event was conceived... 

The Herschel space telescope has for the first time discovered molecular oxygen in a star-forming region of the constellation of Orion. While single atoms of oxygen have been found alone or incorporated into other molecules, the oxygen moleculeس had never been seen in space so far, the BBC reported. Although oxygen is the third most abundant element in the cosmos, its molecular form that makes life... 

Part of the ALPHA experiment at CERN. Some 309 antihydrogen atoms have been created by ALPHA Collaboration in Switzerland and stored in a magnified cylinder up to about 17 minutes for the first time in the history of science. The Geneva-based international team of scientists working in CERN announced on Tuesday that storing the antimatter atoms up to 1000 seconds (nearly 17 minutes) is a great step... 

Astronomers Unveil Most Complete 3D Map of Local Universe. Click on the image to enlarge it. The image to the right is the most complete map of our local universe to date. It took more that ten years to create, has 43,000 galaxies (the universe contains billions if not even trillions of galaxies) and extends out 380 million light years from the earth. The 3D coordinates of each galaxy was recorded...