Scientists from IIT Kanpur and NCRA Pune have developed a groundbreaking method to measure distances between Earth and ...

For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

On February 24, 1968, an astronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell announced that she had discovered the first pulsar. A few months earlier, she noticed what she called a "bit of scruff" in the data from ...

Scientists report a possible pulsar at the Milky Way’s center, discovered through radio observations by the Breakthrough Listen team using the Green Bank Telescope, offering a new laboratory for ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Whether purchased by space enthusiasts, stamp collectors or casual letter writers, these stamps bring the wonders of the universe a little closer to home. Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula, located about 6, ...

Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life ...

A team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope has detected a faint but tantalizing signal from the center of the Milky Way: a possible millisecond pulsar spinning once every 8.19 milliseconds, ...

The U.S. Postal Service unveils two striking new Priority Mail stamps showcasing awe-inspiring cosmic images, celebrating America’s continued exploration of deep space.