For more than a decade, in an unassuming laboratory culture in the Czech Republic, a miniature universe quietly awaited its ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have developed revolutionary and full-scale prototype instrumentation FROSTI, also ...

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe." ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- In a discovery that offers a rare glimpse back to when the universe was just 750 million years old, a team of astrophysicists said Sunday they have detected a tiny galaxy that is ...