Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015. This discovery marked the culmination of a 100-year ...

NASA officials will unveil details about a new finding connected to a unique sample the Perseverance rover found on Mars ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

NASA promised the James Webb Space Telescope would rewrite astronomy—but its discoveries are stranger, scarier, and more groundbreaking than anyone imagined. From impossible galaxies to dark mysteries ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of the early universe. While studying the distant galaxy cluster known as ...

Over the course of more than two decades, researchers at the University of Bern have developed the so-called "Bern model," a ...

A team of international astronomers has identified what is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of outer space. According to ...

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...