Using the world’s largest, fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in W.Va. — an international team of researchers has given ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its center sits a dense, rapidly spinning neutron star that turns every 33.8 ...

Everything that we can see and detect in the world around us—the stars, galaxies, flowers, our bodies, atoms—represents just 5% of the universe. The rest of it, according to current theories, is made ...

"Our findings underscore the importance of considering diverse habitable environments in the search for life elsewhere," said Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, who is an astronomer at the University of Cambridge ...

Better insights on the mysterious cosmic microwave background have arrived, and possibly more are on the way, according to scientists. The cosmic microwave background is deemed the earliest light in ...

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Back in 2007, as part of a crowd-sourced study program called Galaxy Zoo, a Dutch school teacher discovered a very odd celestial object: It looked like a great, green blob floating in space and at the ...

Why it matters: A new European mission will soon depart for its deep space destination, providing scientists here on Earth with a very advanced exploration tool. Its mission: to finally solve the ...

The Euclid space telescope successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and is now poised to collect data about millions of galaxies across one-third of the sky, part of a quest to ...