Category Archives: Environment

Dark matter theory challenged by gassy galaxies result – WBNews

A controversial theory that challenges the existence of dark matter has been buoyed by studies...

‘Music of the stars’ now louder – WBNews

The Kepler space telescope measures the sizes and ages of stars five times better than...

Solar flares on dwarf stars could threaten alien life – WBNews

Red dwarf stars have surprisingly frequent flare-ups, scientists say, and these solar flares’ effects could...

Birth and death within Andromeda – WBNews

This picture, released to the BBC, combines the power of Europe’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space...

Bangs big and small in cosmic origins debate – WBNews

It turns out that sometimes this same “observer effect” crops up in science journalism. The...