Weizmann Institute of Science researcher is a part of the team that discovered a planet with an Earth-like mass orbiting in the habitable zone of our nearest stellar neighbor

An international team announced today that a planet with a mass similar to that of Earth has been observed orbiting the…

Researchers have found two, faint dwarf galaxies that traveled from the remote hinterlands of space to the brighter ligh…

New theory proposes scenario for the origin of the universe

A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have put forward a novel scenario proposing t…

Kepler researchers list exoplanets with the most potential to have liquid water, or even life

Looking for another Earth? An international team of researchers has pinpointed which of the more than 4,000 exoplanets d…

KU Leuven astronomers have shown that the interaction between the surface and the atmosphere of an exoplanet has major c…

The structure, named PC 217.96+32.3A, is located 12 billion light years away in the constellation of Boötes. A paper det…

Astronomers at The University of Nottingham have released spectacular new infrared images of the distant Universe, provi…

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very young hot Jupiter orbiting in the immediate v…

UMD Astronomers Catch X-Rays Released by Black Hole as it Swallows a Star

Roughly 90 percent of the biggest black holes in the known universe are dormant, meaning that they are not actively devo…

The astronomers studied a well known and ancient class of star, called RR Lyrae variables, found only in stellar populat…

Two volunteer astronomers have had a galaxy cluster named after them after finding the galaxy in an international citize…

Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way actively form stars and have a blueish color while elliptical galaxies have little st…

New research has revealed that fewer than predicted planets may be capable of harbouring life because their atmospheres…

The researchers made the discovery using an effect called gravitational lensing to see the incredibly faint object, whic…

Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an opportunity to study…

The discovery gives important new clues about the causes of Type Ia supernovae, which astronomers use to measure vast di…

NASA mission, with help from UMD physicists, is first to observe how magnetic reconnection takes place, a critical step in understanding space weather

A new study provides the first major results of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, including an unprecedented loo…

Findings by Rutgers and other scientists could help shed light on how galaxies and their supermassive black holes form

Research suggests that the growth of galaxies and the growth of their black holes are coordinated. And if

USC Viterbi professor’s invention uses lunar and Martian dust to develop material for a zero-gravity environment

Using synthetic material created by the Johnson Space Center that mirrors the existing gravel and material available on…

Astronomers have observed two black holes in nearby galaxies devouring their companion stars at an extremely high rate,…