NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago.(author unknown)

A $2bn experiment on the space station makes some encouraging steps in the quest to understand dark matter, a mysterious component of the Universe.(author unknown)

From aboard the International Space Station, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has seen what may be our first glimpse of dark matter

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The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverse

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Have scientists finally found dark matter? The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden reports.(author unknown)

Against the law

Nature 496, 7443 (2013). doi:10.1038/496005b

Behaviours proposed for black holes conflict with the laws of physics.

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the first Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) results announced Wednesday at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. AMS is a cosmic ray particle physics detector on the exterior of the International Space Station.(author unknown)

Cosmologists using data from ESA's Planck satellite have compiled the first all-sky image of the distribution of dark matter across the entire history of the Universe as seen projected on the sky. This is made possible by analysing the tiny distortions imprinted on the photons of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by the gravitational lensing effect of massive cosmic structures. As photons travelled through these structures, which consist primarily of dark matter, their paths became bent, slightly changing the pattern of the CMB. Although noisy, this image is the first measurement performed over almost the whole sky of the gravitational potential that distorts the CMB, and is one of the highlights of Planck's cosmological results. With these unique data, cosmologists can investigate 13 billion years of the formation of structure in the Universe. The data agree very well with the expectations from the leading cosmological model that describes the origin and evolution of cosmic structure in the Universe.(author unknown)

Astronomers have watched as a black hole woke up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a low-mass object - either a brown dwarf or a giant planet - that strayed too close. A similar feeding event, albeit on a gas cloud, will soon happen at the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way Galaxy.(author unknown)

The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.(author unknown)

Life as we know it doesn't thrive on planets without ozone layers, which is why the recovery of Earth's ozone layer is so important. A new instrument slated for launch to the ISS will monitor our planet's protective ozone cocoon with greater depth and precision than ever before.(author unknown)

Computer simulations show that as many as 2000 black holes kicked out of their host galaxies might live in the Milky Way's outskirts

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77, one of the most famous and well-studied galaxies in the sky. The patches of red across this image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling arms, with dark dust lanes stretching across the galaxy's energetic centre.(author unknown)

In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, ESA's Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born.(author unknown)

This pretty sprinkling of bright blue stars is the cluster NGC 2547, a group of recently formed stars in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This image was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.(author unknown)

Telescope maps all matter in the Universe(author unknown)

Planetary science: Migrating planets sped up collisions

Nature 495, 7442 (2013). doi:10.1038/495413d

The pockmarked asteroid Vesta (pictured) has provided more hints about the history of the early Solar System.As giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn shifted into place about 4.1 billion years ago, their changing gravitational pull flung asteroid fragments into highly eccentric