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…

An international team of researchers, including astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology, has discovered the…

The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole supports the cosmic inflation theory of…

Astrophysics fans will be treated to a public forum on Type Ia supernovae this month when eminent astrophysicist Dr Chri…

Astronomers at the University of Washington have developed a new method of gauging the atmospheric pressure of exoplanet…

The new CRC will help scientists find and track tiny pieces of debris orbiting the Earth, which pose serious risk of col…

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have for the first time directly measured the spin of a distant supermassive b…

University of Arizona researchers snapped images of a planet outside our solar system with an Earth-based telescope usin…

The discovery may provide fresh insights into the Standard Model of particle physics and resolve unanswered questions ab…

New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report of the disruption of an exotic helium star

New study shows what happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole, contradicting a 2012 report…

New details suggest how massive stars explode

Using its X-ray vision to observe what is left of a massive star that exploded long ago, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Te…

MIT researchers propose using distant quasars to test Bell’s theorem.

Such a quantum view would allow for seemingly counterintuitive phenomena such as entanglement, in which the measurement…

An international team, including researchers from CNRS and the Paris Observatory at LESIA and at IMCEE, has discovered i…

The detector in Ash River, Minn., is operated by the University of Minnesota

The NUMI Off-Axis electron neutrino Appearance, or NOvA, experiment consists of two huge particle detectors placed 500 m…