A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are reflected in its name: dark matter.

   Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering co led a new study by an international team that will improve the detection of gravitational waves ripples in space and time.

   Japan’s space agency announced Friday a plan to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging system, as a new flagship rocket is put to the test for a third time.

   Using the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope FAST , Chinese astronomers have investigated radio emission from a rotating radio transient known as RRAT J . Results of the study, published April on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this...

   A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by .

   Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records. While the asteroid bound spacecraft doesn’t rely on optical communications to send data, the new technology has proven that it’s up to the task. After...

   The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff.

   ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system.

   Well over, planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery; their first free floating or rogue planet. The planet was...

   A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US billion to over billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to .

   China launched a three member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by .

   European astronomers have investigated a recently detected black hole designated Gaia BH . In their results, they found that the black hole is associated with a nearby disrupted star cluster known as ED . The finding is reported in a paper published April on the preprint server arXiv.

   New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A are being released from NASA’s Chandra X ray Observatory. Each includes X ray data collected by Chandra over about two decades. They show dramatic changes in the debris and radiation remaining after the...

   NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science missions, one of NASA’s commercial partners is already preparing to use it for another purpose to...

   While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to search for potential evidence of past life , according to the official...

   ESA’s Mars Express has snapped the telltale traces of spiders scattered across the southern polar region of Mars.

   Planetary nebula are some of nature’s most stunning visual displays. The name is confusing since they’re the remains of stars, not planets. But that doesn’t detract from their status as objects of captivating beauty and intense scientific study.

   SpaceX sent up the th launch from the Space Coast for the year on the evening of April , a mission that also featured the company’s th successful booster recovery.

   While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma rays high energy photons coming from the nearby galaxy M . Only a few hours later, ESA’s XMM Newton X ray space telescope searched for an afterglow from the explosion but found none.

   An international study, led by researchers from Monash University, has revealed crucial insights into black hole dynamics within massive disks at the centers of galaxies.

   A new study, led by the University of Oxford and MIT, has recovered a . billion year old record of Earth’s magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth today. The findings have been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

   The moon’s steadfast illumination of our night sky has been a source of wonder and inspiration for millennia. Since the first satellite images of its surface were taken in the s, our understanding of Earth’s companion through time has developed immeasurably. A complex interplay of cosmic...

   China’s space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by .

   Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.

   The universe’s early galaxies were less chaotic and developed much faster than previously thought, according to new research looking back more than ten billion years in time. An international team of astronomers led by Durham University, UK, has used the James Webb Space Telescope JWST to find...

   In celebration of the th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April , astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula also known as Messier , M, or NGC located, light years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus....

   The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TESS , scientists discovered thousands of exoplanets, most of which were detected and confirmed using indirect methods.

   Turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. It exists everywhere, from our daily lives to the distant universe, while being labeled as the last great unsolved problem of classical physics by Richard Feynman. Prof. Dr. Huirong Yan and her group from the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University...

   NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among space scientists, who view the Mars Sample Return MSR mission as a cornerstone of plans to explore...

   SpaceX is set to send up the th launch on the Space Coast this year targeting an evening liftoff Tuesday that would see the th booster recovery if successful.