Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

An indication of the energy level involved in this event, she adds, is, “if you convert our entire sun to energy, using Albert Einstein’s famous formula, E = mc2, that’s how much energy has been ...

1 Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku, Turku, Finland 2 Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Turun yliopisto, Turku, Finland The final, formatted ...

In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that ...

Ice grains from Enceladus reveal the richest mix of organics yet, offering the strongest clues that the moon’s hidden ocean ...