An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.
PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...
Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.
Above the Paranal Observatory in Chile, a mesmerizing scene unfolds, Chilean astrophotographer Alexis Trigo captured the ...
Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis – meaning ‘astonishing’ Spinosaurus in Latin – the giant lived in what ...
The international astronomical community is celebrating. The mega-project by AES Andes, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based AES ...
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.
"We were very surprised to see this structure," said astrophysicist Theo Khouri of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology ...
A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...
Drawing on a decade’s worth of underwater sound data from Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic, the researchers found that as climate change drives faster ice loss, the region’s underwater soundscape ...