EIRSAT-1, the student-built satellite from University College Dublin (UCD) that was launched into space last December, ...

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Astrophysicist Suzanna Randall explains where the elements in our body come from in this episode of "Starlight" from the European Southern Observatory. Credit: ESO Directed by: Martin Wallner, Luis ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Astronomers resolve longstanding mystery of Gliese 229B's dimness, despite its considerable mass. A Caltech-led team ...

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...

New research has the answer. By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids ...

Peppered throughout the universe are balls of gas that never got promoted to stardom. In a strange twist, evidence has just ...

Two new studies show that the majority of meteorites originate from just one family of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until now ...