In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Germany is set to spend a total of €35 billion ($41 billion) on space security architecture by 2030, Defence Minister Boris ...

A new analysis of ice grains bursting from Enceladus' water ice plumes strongly suggests life is possible on Saturn's ...

Cosmic dust - the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life – might be much ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said two Russian satellites were tracking spacecraft used by the Bundeswehr, Germany's armed forces.

Astronomers have identified an enormous 'growth spurt' in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit ...

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous primatologist, died Wednesday at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute announced on ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

When you look up at the night sky, it feels endless — vast, mysterious, and out of reach. But what if exploring it didn’t require bulky, expensive instruments?

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...