New Scientist Space - Cosmology

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has entered a new phase, probing to greater distances to study the universe's expansion history

Ripples in space-time, thought to emanate from the collision of black holes, might be detected with the spooky phenomenon of quantum entanglement (full text available to subscribers)

The very first stars were giants weighing 100 Suns – they coalesced out of primordial gas about 300 million years after the big bang

In 1996,

A researcher questions the claim that the physical constants are fine-tuned for life - altering them can still produce life-supporting stars

If you were unlucky enough to be living in some other universe, you might have nothing to stare at but black holes, suggests a new study (full text available to subscribers)

If we switch everything off and wait quietly, a very important particle might come out to play.

Distant galaxies have magnetic fields apparently too strong to have formed by the dynamo mechanism thought to create them

What really happened in the first few minutes after the big bang? One element could hold the answer, says

The supernovae that astronomers use to measure dark energy's affect on the universe's expansion have more complex origins than we thought

An extremely rare alignment between Earth and a pair of dense stars called pulsars reveals how bodies wobble in the presence of gravity

What really happened in the first few minutes after the big bang? One element could hold the answer, says Matthew Chalmers (full text available to subscribers)

A NASA mission to study dark energy may be too expensive to begin in 2009, as planned

Why was the big bang so very big? Stephen Hawking claims to be close to perfecting an answer – by treating the early cosmos as a quantum object (full text available to subscribers)

Breakdown products from decaying dark matter may puff up dwarf galaxies, possibly explaining why sightings don't match predicted numbers (full text available to subscribers)

The decay of dark matter would puff up dwarf galaxies , which may explain why fewer have been spotted than are thought to exist (full text available to subscribers)

Colossal structures larger than the observable universe may be responsible for a strange pattern seen in the big bang's afterglow

Our best theory of the early universe is starting to look a tad insecure. Could this mean we've got it all wrong, asks

Primordial black holes may have radiated gamma rays that lit up the universe long before the first stars were born (full text available to subscribers)

Three dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way contain proportionally more dark matter than any stellar system yet studied