An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...
A European research project is exploring whether ion beams could push aside dangerous space debris — without even touching it ...
See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...
New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...
Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point ...
No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...
"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...
Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...