The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...

The Gemini South telescope is turning 25, and astronomers are celebrating its birthday with a dazzling new image of the ...

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More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Using Nasa ’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University ...

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The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

Could the universe’s most elusive substance finally have given away its presence? Nearly a century after the first indirect ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

Scientists believe that they have observed gamma-rays from dark matter for the first time, after searching for over 100 years ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...