The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...

Auroras are some of the most mesmerizing natural phenomena on Earth, captivating observers with their otherworldly beauty and ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought too large to form like ordinary planets — may grow ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Sagittarius A* weighs ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

How the ARTEMIS mentoring programme connects African students and doctoral researchers with scientists of the Max Planck ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

Geoffrey Andama was a mentee in the first round of the ARTEMIS program in 2023. Since September 2025, he has headed the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Unit at Muni University in Uganda. The new unit is ...

India is set to establish two new telescopes and upgrade an existing one in Ladakh, marking a significant advancement for observational astronomy.

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences and Technology (SAASST), part of the University of Sharjah, inaugurated the first-ever UAE-Italy bilateral forum on space sciences and ...