Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as NGC1052-DF2,...

How do we really know that there weren’t civilizations on Earth before ours? A new paper addresses this question. Imagine if, many millions of years...

A team of scientists, led by academics from King's College London and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, have discovered 124 genes that play...

Hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve the chances of locating life in the cosmos, say astronomers. Planets located great...

In our daily experience space has three dimensions. Recently, however, a physical phenomenon that only occurs in four spatial dimensions could be observed in two...

The discovery that water microdroplets can replace potentially toxic agents in the creation of gold nanoparticles and nanowires could help usher in a new...

Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave...

The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine needles, researchers find Diamond is well-known as the strongest of all natural materials, and with...

It might sound like something from a science fiction plot – astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays – but radiation...

Why do our oceans contain such a staggering diversity of fish of so many different sizes, shapes and colors? A UCLA-led team of biologists reports...