A new study confirms some ideas about where X-rays come from, shedding light on our solar neighborhood's early history. But it also reveals a new mystery -- an entire group of X-rays that don't come from any known source.
The world’s largest filled single-dish radio telescope launched at the weekend. The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in the southwestern province of Guizhou, China is now operational.
Two red dwarfs and their accompanying gas giant were discovered through a microlensing event -- but their true nature could only be confirmed by Hubble.
The universe is expanding uniformly according to research led by University College London (UCL) which reports that space isn’t stretching in a preferred direction or spinning.
An international team of astronomers crack the case of a mysterious galaxy,Markarian 1018, that has suddenly dimmed after shining brightly for 30 years.
China is scheduled to launch a human-rated spacecraft the size of a bus Thursday, paving the way for a month-long visit by two astronauts in October and nudging the country’s space program closer to building a large research complex in orbit by the early 2020s.
A new study proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins – a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.
The European Space Agency is set to unveil a three-dimensional map of a billion stars in our galaxy that is 1,000 times more complete than anything existing today.
The hydrogen ions travel at 99.999,999,1 per cent of the speed of light. Their time slows down by a factor of 27,777,778. One second for one of these protons is about 11 months for us.
New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados has discovered 63 new quasars from when the universe was only a billion years old.
As far as stars go, these two are rather close together to have such massive, Jupiter-sized planets orbiting them. The planets and their stars were found 154 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Anchored to a carrier aircraft, Virgin SpaceShip Unity takes to the skies in Mojave, Calif.
Computer simulations of a spherical collection of stars known as 'NGC 6101' reveal that it contains hundreds of black holes, until now thought impossible.
Humanity is about to deepen its understanding of Earth's winds. The European Space Agency has secured a rocket launch deal for its wind-tracking Aeolus satellite, which is now expected to enter orbit before the end of 2017.
The Global Seed Vault is a vast storehouse far north of the Arctic Circle. In it are half a billion seeds from around the world. The vault is meant to safeguard humanity against losing vital food stocks to extinction, natural disaster, nuclear war or climate change.
