Dark matter is the invisible force holding the universe together—or so we think. It makes up about 85% of all...
Boeing’s first astronaut mission ended Friday night with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still in space, left...
Researchers from LMU, the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and the ORIGINS Data Science...
The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes—which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of...
Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can’t survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes....
New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As...
Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of...
If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already interacting...
A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that...
Jupiter’s striking appearance comes from its stormy atmosphere. Swirling clouds surround the gas giant, and their distribution reflects the planet’s...
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The...
A small asteroid discovered on Wednesday harmlessly burned up in Earth’s atmosphere the same day, NASA said. The asteroid—about 3...
