When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

The University of Arizona is set to launch Galaxy Slam, a weeklong celebration of its legacy in space science and research.

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 ...

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, ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a wealth of molecules that could serve as the ...

Long-held assumptions about what lies at the center of the Milky Way could be incorrect, as new international research ...

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

Scientists have uncovered incredible truths about the universe, yet some mysteries still refuse to show us an explanation.