The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘ vikingr ’ meaning ‘ pirate.’ The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s ...

”Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the Universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,” said University of Ottawa’s ...

Cold, dense clouds in the interstellar medium of our Milky Way Galaxy are around four-five orders of magnitude denser than their diffuse counterparts. A team of astronomers from Boston University, ...