Images from the space telescopes also pinpointed the object's distance at 7.2 light-years away, making it the fourth clo…

The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics recognizes Linde's contributions in developing cosmic inflation, the theory that explains the origin and structure of the universe.

Andrei Linde, the Harold Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford, has been awarded the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophys…

An international project led by Stanford physics Professor Bruce Macintosh can detect Jupiter-size planets orbiting faraway stars that resemble our sun.

The hunt for planets in faraway solar systems has taken another step forward with the debut of a new planet-detecting in…

A team of galactic archaeologists has uncovered new insights into the formation of the earliest stars and galaxies by ob…

An international team of astronomers have discovered the most distant examples of galaxies that were already mature and…

Somewhere out in the cosmos an ordinary galaxy spins, seemingly at slumber. Then all of a sudden

New model, spanning 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, makes important advances.

A massive computer simulation has produced a model of the universe’s evolution with new accuracy in some important measu…

Cosmologists have established that much of the stuff of the universe is made of dark matter, a mysterious, invisible sub…

Discovery of hydrogen-rich apatite in lunar rocks hinted at more watery past. Think again, says UCLA's Jeremy Boyce.

The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a t…

Gravity resonance spectroscopy, a method developed at the Vienna University of Technology, is so sensitive that it can n…

Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used 140,000 distant quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Uni…

A scientist from the University of Southampton will be helping to design and build the world’s largest telescope.

Professor Anna Scaife, from the University’s Astronomy Group, will join other UK scientists, engineers and industries in…

An international team of astronomers has developed a novel technique to reconstruct an interstellar cloud’s three-dimens…

Three new planets classified as habitable-zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red…

MIT scientists identify a plasma plume that naturally protects the Earth against solar storms.

MIT scientists identify a plasma plume that naturally protects the Earth against solar storms

By precisely measuring how much the gravity from the cluster's mass warps images of far-more-distant background galaxies…

Latest research has uncovered a massive clump of carbon monoxide in a young solar system. The gas is the result of near…

One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is to enable astrophysicists at The University of Nottingham to build a…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have rejuvenated a technique for finding planets near…

Studying Andromeda II, astronomers observe where little galaxies come from

Galaxies grow by attracting and ingesting smaller galaxies, or by merging with other galaxies of comparable size. Now, a…