Hawking loses black hole bet
Hawking's solution to the black hole information paradox has yet to convince his peers
Old galaxies shed new light on young universe
Massive galaxies formed much earlier in the history of the universe than models predict
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Thomas Gold: 1920 – 2004
Maverick astronomer and geoscientist dies aged 84
Bill Bryson bags book prize
Best-selling travel writer scoops leading prize for science books
Stars may be older than we think
New measurements of nuclear reactions have implications in astronomy
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Accelerating universe will limit technology
Cosmological considerations will place universal limits on computation
When did stars form?
Star formation peaked more recently than previously thought
Prizes reward cosmologists
Alan Guth and Andrei Linde share Gruber cosmology prize, while Templeton prize goes to George Ellis
Galaxy breaks distance record
Astronomers probe universe when it was just 3% of its present age
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Revealing the secrets of planetary formation
A newly-discovered stellar disk of dust could help explain how planets form
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