Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

White noise on televisions and radios contained remnants of the Big Bang. When we saw it on screen during a bad reception or when channels were unavailable, we were unknowingly watching our universe's ...

What if the Universe were not symmetrical? This idea, which goes against what scientists have long believed, emerges from new studies on large cosmic structures. Instead of being uniform in ...

A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground ...

It wasn’t long after Dr Laura Manenti landed in Sydney that she realised her new home was rather radioactive.

The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous ...

Understanding how massive stars evolve and return energy, momentum, and metals to their surroundings is a central problem in ...

An unusual yet scientifically accurate fact about one of the worlds most beloved fruits is drawing curiosity: bananas are mildly radioactive. Far from science fiction, this phenomenon is a natural ...