A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September. The most powerful...

The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.

Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...

Dayana Mendoza put a promising modeling career on hold to go for _ and win _ the Miss Universe crown.”Being a model is just great. You show a brand, a beautiful...

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Barack Obama is running for president of the United States or Mr. Universe.The Democratic presidential contender exercises...

Get anything done yesterday? Because a galaxy at the edge of the known universe pumped out ten entire stars. Yes, stars, the great big sky-dominating fusion reactors...

Miss USA has learned a simple lesson from her humiliating tumble during the Miss Universe pageant _ the second year in a row the American contestant has taken a...

Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2008.Mendoza and three other Latin Americans women made the final five at Sunday’s contest.The four...

The 2008 Miss Universe contest has begun, with 80 of the world’s most beautiful women competing to win one of the pageant world’s most coveted crowns.The...

Behind all the hugs and smiles, the 80 Miss Universe contestants are engaged in a fierce competition. But two contestants with perhaps the greatest reason for...

Universe Sandbox is an interactive space simulation that enables the users to create the whole of an astronomical universe of their own. Here they can...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) camera will map 300 million galaxies using the Blanco 4-meter telescope - a large telescope with new advanced optics at Chile’s Cerro...

One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject,...

Jerry Springer and Melanie Brown will co-host the 2008 Miss Universe pageant, which will air live from Nha Trang, Vietnam, on July 13.Springer, 64, is host of...

The unusual properties of frozen water may have been the ticket that made life possible.

Black holes are the most fascinating features of space time yet discovered, regions where mass is compacted so densely that the values literally go off the scales and...

NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...

New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new...

Earth-like planets have relatively short windows of opportunity for life to evolve, making it highly doubtful intelligent beings exist elsewhere in the universe,...

COULD a Welshman be responsible for ending the world, then the entire universe? As bizarre as it sounds, that is what a federal court in the US will have to decide in...