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Why it matters: A new European mission will soon depart for its deep space destination, providing scientists here on Earth with a very advanced exploration tool. Its mission: to finally solve the ...

"Our findings underscore the importance of considering diverse habitable environments in the search for life elsewhere," said Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, who is an astronomer at the University of Cambridge ...

Back in 2007, as part of a crowd-sourced study program called Galaxy Zoo, a Dutch school teacher discovered a very odd celestial object: It looked like a great, green blob floating in space and at the ...

Using the world’s largest, fully steerable radio telescope — the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in W.Va. — an international team of researchers has given ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made strides in unraveling the mysteries surrounding dark matter within the Draco dwarf galaxy, located about 250,000 light-years away. Dark matter, an invisible ...

Everything that we can see and detect in the world around us—the stars, galaxies, flowers, our bodies, atoms—represents just 5% of the universe. The rest of it, according to current theories, is made ...

Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its center sits a dense, rapidly spinning neutron star that turns every 33.8 ...

Cosmologists have long been on the hunt for dark matter, which makes up 80 percent of the mass in the universe, and yet is still mysterious. As its name suggests, dark matter doesn’t emit light, ...