Scientists find source of cosmic dust
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Scientists in California have uncovered the best evidence yet that cosmic dust in the early universe mostly came from the explosions of giant stars.
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Scientists in California on Friday began examining for the first time samples of solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft Genesis, which crashed earlier this month in the Utah desert when its parachutes failed to open on landing.
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Evidence is found to tie the structure of the Universe to ripples in the density of matter at the dawn of time.
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Two monster cosmic clouds could hold the solution to the mystery of the missing matter -- immense amounts of celestial stuff that somehow has eluded detection.
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It's raining organic molecules Scientists have found evidence that the seeds of life may indeed have fallen from the sky.â¦
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In this artist&#39;s concept released by NASA, a ring of dusty debris is seen around a star. NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope found rings of dust around planet-bearing stars, an important confirmation of theories
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Astronomers sifting through  the radiation signals emanating from a distant black hole have separated the  emission into its two component parts, a key step in understanding how such  massive objects work.
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The Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes each have found dusty disks around sun-like stars. Finding such rings of dusty debris around stars the size of the sun is difficult, because they are fainter and harder
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Astronomers using a giant telescope say  they have found glimpses of the most distant -- and oldest --  galaxies ever seen, a finding that will help provide clues to  the origins of the universe.
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US astronomers have discovered massive new galaxies evolving in our corner of the universe. This means that galaxy-forming processes thought to have ended eons ago continue relatively nearby
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ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed evidence for a magnetic field in space where astronomers never expected to find one.
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Astronomers are watching a galaxy rip to shreds, a finding that could help reveal how galaxies go from stellar riches to rags.
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Astronomers have found evidence for the most distant galaxies ever detected.
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Astronomers said the work was another steppingstone in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
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com Staff. Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It&#39;s a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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UC Davis -- A new method for looking at the composition of comets using ground-based telescopes has been developed by chemists at UC Davis. Remnants from the formation of our solar system, the makeup of comets gives clues about how the Earth and other planets formed...
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Astrophysicists find a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun.