Strange "right-handed" neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies ...

University of Denver astronomers have revealed new insights into how carbon-rich dust—which is crucial for planet ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...