NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

In 2019, Dr. Kletzing with University of Iowa's Physics and Astronomy Department pitched the research study to NASA to examine the near-Earth interaction between our magnetosphere and the sun's solar ...

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

How can we determine if intelligent life exists in our Universe, or maybe other universes? This is what a recent study ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...