Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. O…

Researchers from University of Warwick and Monash University have provided new evidence that may prove the existence of…

Satellite dwarf galaxies at the edges of the Milky Way and neighbouring Andromeda galaxies don’t fit the accepted model…

Research provides measurements for scientists searching for water in solar system

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that ultraviolet photons emitted by the sun likely cause H…

What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star system…

The bright core of a spiral galaxy has unexpectedly dimmed, according to a new study by an international team of astronomers.

Published in Science today, the study provides the first direct evidence for the long-predicted shielding process that i…

The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away cou…

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…