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The Four Ages of the Universe -- What's Next? -- Discovery News The Greek poet Hesiod described the Five Ages of Man in mythology. They ...

Dying Stars Are The Building Blocks Of Future Planets -- Red Orbit Scientists report in a new study that they have solved a long-standing my...

Origins Of The Universe Exposed In Dazzling 3D Videos -- Live Science Some of the greatest mysteries of the universe, such as how the first ...

The region around Supernova 1987A as viewed by Herschel and Hubble. (Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/NASA-JPL/Caltech/UCL/STScI and the Hubb...

This NASA illustration photo shows stars that are forming in a dwarf starburst galaxy located about 30 million light years from Earth. A 22-...

From NPR: Our universe might be really, really big — but finite. Or it might be infinitely big. Both cases, says physicist Brian Greene, are...

Hank Childs / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From Time Magazine: Most stars end their lives in a whimper — our own sun will almost ce...

The End of Time Ticking off the seconds until the end of time, some 3.7 billion years from now. Leo Reynolds via Flickr From Popular Scien...

A team of astronomers have obtained new data by studying quasars, which are very distant galaxies hosting an active black hole in their cent...

From Space.com: The puzzling migration of matter in deep space – dubbed "dark flow" – has been observed at farther distances than ...

The galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 (known as the Bullet Cluster) lies 3.8 billion light-years away. It's one of hundreds that appear to be ca...

Can you see it yet? (Image: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team/STScI/AURA) From New Scientist: The key to understanding dark matter is i...

The newly discovered red giant star S1020549 dominates this artist's conception. The primitive star contains 6,000 times less heavy elem...

Supernovas are often used by astronomers as 'cosmic mile markers' to measure the expansion of the universe Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES ...

This is from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and shows evidence from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest...

Image : Some scientists believe dark matter (in pink) is everywhere in the universe From The BBC: Researchers in the US say they have detect...

Supermassive black holes are increasing the overall amount of entropy in the universe - and lessening the amount of time the universe has le...

IBEX spacecraft's all-sky map reveals a bright ribbon of particles. Credit: NASA From Cosmos: HUNTSVILLE, USA: The ribbon of particles a...

'Electroweak' stars may recreate the conditions of the big bang in an apple-sized region in their cores (Illustration: Casey Reed, c...

Image: The trail of matter left by an orbiting galaxy hints at the dark matter's shape From The BBC: The giant halo of dark matter that...