Avaneesh Pandey

Astronomers have detected glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was just 600 million years old — one that can provide a glimpse of what the cosmos was like in its formative years.

The image shows the two stars in the system — LL Pegasi and its younger companion — locked in a “stellar waltz” in a cloud of gas and dust.

The star system, which consists of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf, is currently believed to have three planets in its habitable zone.

The research demonstrates that reading and writing information on an atom is theoretically possible — the first step toward the creation of storage devices not circumscribed by Moore’s law.

In a new study, researchers from the University of Alberta argue that some early dinosaurs evolved to stand on their own two feet as it allowed them to run faster and for longer distances.

The recent discovery of two "archaic" human skulls in China exhibiting a curious mishmash of features raises an intriguing possibility — the hominid family tree may be bigger than previously thought.

Engineers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have successfully installed a new "pixel tracker" in the CMS detector, increasing the odds of discovering signs of "new physics."

The European Space Agency released images showing Kasei Valles — a nearly 2,000-mile channel system created roughly 3.6 billion to 3.4 billion years ago — in unprecedented detail.

A team of scientists detected temperature swings in ultrafast “burps” of hot winds emitted by a black hole's accretion disk. These outflows could be responsible for preventing the birth of stars.

A new study based on climate models of hypothetical exoplanets has shown that the presence of hydrogen-spewing volcanoes could expand a star's habitable zone.

A new NASA study, based on infrared observations of the comet Lovejoy, suggests that as a comet passes its perihelion, its ratio of heavy water to normal water output changes drastically.

On Monday, the private spaceflight company revealed its ambitious plan to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year.

Scientists believe that further observations of SN 1987A — an object that once blazed with the power of a 100 million suns — could reveal how elements are dispersed through interstellar space.

NASA has begun a feasibility study to consider the risks associated with adding crew to the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

In a protocluster of ancient galaxies far, far away, lies a glowing nebula. The problem is, no one knows why it glows.

According to a study, Neanderthal DNA sequences present in the modern human genome are, even now, influencing gene expression — especially those related to traits such as height and susceptibility to schizophrenia.

On Thursday, the International Astronomical Union approved themes for naming surface features on Pluto and its moons. For the dwarf planet, most of the naming themes relate to the underworld.

A team of Swiss researchers describe a neural net-enabled system that can recognize and reconstruct astronomical features that telescopes could not resolve.

The world's only sample of metallic hydrogen, a substance touted as the holy grail of condensed-matter physics, has reportedly “disappeared.”

The recent discovery of seven Earth-sized planets around the nearby red dwarf TRAPPIST-1 bolsters the assertion that objects around these ultra-cool stars may be the best place to look for alien life.

In a new study, a team of researchers have argued it may be possible to detect axions — a class of hypothetical particles that some physicists believe makes up dark matter — created by spinning black holes.

The pulsar, located roughly 50 million light-years from Earth, emits the same amount of energy our sun releases in 3.5 years.

The mission, scheduled for launch in the 2020s, would now enter a preliminary design phase, known as “Phase B.”

Astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected more high-energy gamma rays coming from the center of the galaxy than can be explained by known sources.

A team of NASA researchers led by Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, has called for a drastic change in the way planets are currently defined.

As we wait for NASA to reveal its latest findings on planets beyond our solar system, here is a list of some of the most potentially habitable exoplanets discovered so far.

The technique, which exploits the fact that DNA molecules fluoresce when illuminated by particular wavelengths of light, is the first to see DNA “blink.”

An image released Monday by the European Southern Observatory shows the first measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect on the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Under proposals to be unveiled later this week, British companies could begin launching commercial satellites from home soil for the first time.