We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

Half of the universe's hydrogen has been missing since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, but scientists reckon they've ...

The search for life involves the most sophisticated observational machines known to humanity. They peer out across the light-years, looking for some proof – any proof – that other life exists, out ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...