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Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated computer simulations to devise a test that could answer a burning question in astrophysics: is there really dark matter?...

When looking to study the most distant objects in the Universe, astronomers often rely on a technique known as Gravitational Lensing. Based on the principles of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, this technique inv...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 27, to provide an update on the agency's James Webb Space Telescope and the findings of an external independent review board.

Three years ago, NASA has gathered researchers from around the world to support and accelerate techniques to answer the question: Are we alone? An international network has produced a comprehensive series of papers outli...

Thanks to a recent study by an international team of scientists, the remaining missing normal matter of the Universe may finally have been found! The post The Universe’s Missing Matter. Found! appeared first on Univers...

The Pentagon hopes to have funding approved possibly next year to begin work on a network of missile-watching satellites. SpaceNews.com

Because they are found in more than half of malignant tumors, amyloid aggregates of mutant p53 are considered novel strategic targets in the fight against cancer. In its normal, unmutated version, the protein is responsi...

"Webb's infrared sensitivity provides a wonderful complement to Hubble visible-wavelength studies of the Great Red Spot," said astronomer Heidi Hammel, the executive vice president of the Association of Universities for ...

Astrophysicists of the University of Bern, Switzerland, contributed to a series of NASA papers that lay out strategies to search for signs of life beyond our solar system. They assume that the detection of atmospheric si...

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: An artist's interpretation of the Time experiment performed on the International Space Station

The aviation giant aims to take astronauts to the International Space Station in a capsule that is similar to Apollo spacecraft.

How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to 16 kilometres. Astrophysicists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS have now succeeded in determining the size of neutron stars to within 1....

One scientist thinks that future intelligent aliens might survive by collecting, storing and harnessing the power of stars.

It took nearly a century of trial and error for human scientists to organize the periodic table of elements, arguably one of the greatest scientific achievements in chemistry, into its current form. A new artificial inte...

Missed the planets in the dusk sky in early 2018? This summer's astronomical blockbuster sees the return of all the classical naked eye planets in the dusk sky, in a big way. The post Planetpalooza: All Bright Planets Vi...

"What does a living planet look like?" said Mary Parenteau, an astrobiologist and microbiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and a co-author. "We have to be open to the possibility that life may aris...

A European team of astronomers has discovered that dust particles around a star already coagulate before the star is fully grown. Dust particle growth is the first step in the formation of planets. The researchers from t...

An international team of astronomers has serendipitously detected a new pulsar during a search for neutron star companions to low-mass white dwarfs conducted with the use of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) ...

In his first interview as head of Russia's Roscosmos space corporation, Dmitry Rogozin confirmed reports of the venerable Proton rocket's coming demise and suggested Russia is looking to make its segment of the ISS more ...

In a recent speech, President Donald Trump announced a new policy for the American space programme. It is time, he argued, for America to create a "Space Force". As ever, the policy announcement was full of glittering id...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a draft proposal June 21 for giving the wireless industry access to C-band spectrum commercial satellite operators use to deliver cable and broadcast network programming....

SpaceX's Crew Dragon is at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Ohio, to undergo testing in the In-Space Propulsion Facility--the world's only facility capable of testing full-scale upper-stage launch vehicles and rocket engines...