Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed at a time when ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...

Water has been present in the universe since 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, scientists have discovered. The study, ...

TUCSON, AZ – Researchers at the University of Arizona have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of astronomy. They ...

Dark matter density in the Milky Way measured using pulsars Pulsar acceleration data reveals galactic gravitational mapping Study expands dark matter research beyond binary pulsars ...