Is there such a thing as a killer meteor season for the Earth? Scientists believe so. One theory says that the killer meteor that killed the dinos came during this kind of season. Scientists now believe we are close to another such season. More details in the full article.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has trained its sights on a rather puzzling astronomical discovery. Nine young, compact galaxies spanning only 5,000 light-years across were spotted recently. The weird thing about them was that they weigh as much as 200 billion times the mass of our own Sun. Find out more about this in our full article after the jump.

More inspiring images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been released to give us a glimpse of crashing galaxies. To celebrate the telescope's 18th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute unleashed rare pictures of merging galaxies that you don't want to miss. See the article for more details.

In just about every galaxy known to man, the most common feature in them is that they all have a monstrous centerpiece: a massive black hole. For some reason, Milky Way's own Sagittarius A* seems dormant, but Japanese observers say it wasn't always this way. The full story follows after the jump.

Though black holes are often characterized as humongous gravity sinks, scientists believe there's a minimum mass requirement for any black hole in existence. They've got the requirements down pat by way of theoretical prediction only, but two able researchers from NASA finally pinpointed the smallest black hole to date. It could help them judge whether their estimates are accurate enough. More details at the full story.

Scientists can be really odd sometimes. Previously, astronomers told us that dark matter doesn't exist; now cosmologists have found what may be the mother of all dark matter structures. Get the "big" picture in the full article, right after the jump.

A recent study has confirmed that there are hundreds of other planets which carry conditions similar to Earth in the outskirts of the Solar System and even across the Milky Way Galaxy.

The scientists hope to know more about this in the continued search for life and possible future colonies. Know more after the jump!

A star nine times the size of our own Sun has been observed speeding away from our Milky Way at 1.6 million miles per hour. While this may not be an unusual event in and of itself (stranger stuff have happened in the universe - game delays for instance), scientists have been puzzled by the star's origins since it didn't come from our own galaxy. Now they believe that the star came from another galaxy, catapulted away by a black hole 1,000 times the mass of the Sun. Details in the full article.

Can you imagine our Sun as it floats out in space? It's mass is equal to 332,946 Earths. Now imagine the Sun multiplied 18 billion times. That is the mass of the black hole that scientists have recently discovered. The biggest black hole yet. Details in the full article.

A "cold spot" detected in the South Galactic Hempisphere of the universe has piqued the interests of scientists in the Institute of Physics in Cantabria and the University of Cambridge.

They believe that the cold spot is the result of a defect in the fabric of space and time, dating back to the birth of the universe, the Big Bang. The cold spot was detected in the cosmic microwave background of the universe.

The microwave is radiation left over from the Big Bang and the cold spot is an area of extreme cold. The cold spot they found spanned 1 billion light years across and scientists believe that it - like Neo - is an anomaly, a proof of a defect in the universe.

Scientists describe the defect like the white, cloudy spots found in ice. These spots are the result of misaligned water molecules; a defect in the ice (ironically a natural defect). The cosmic equivalent, the cold spot, is called a texture, and may be described as a blob in space.

Other scientists don't buy into the theory that the cold spot may be a defect. It could very well be just a hole in our galaxy, a giant bubble in space where nothing exists inside which would explain why it's cold. At any rate, research into the matter would give new insights into the universe, whatever the answer turns out to be.