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A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University’s Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert in northwest Africa.

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Supersonic gas streams left over from the Big Bang likely gave rise to early massive black holes.

Dwarf galaxies and star-containing halos found 25 million light years away from Earth hint at how these halos are formed.

An international team of researchers including the Kavli IPMU have observed the most distant individual star, 9 billion light years from Earth.

The availability of high-resolution data collected by miniaturized satellites heralds a turning point in Earth and environmental sensing from space.

An amateur astronomer testing his new camera captures the moment a supernova became visible in the night sky, which has helped an international team of researchers to test their theory about the beginning stages of a stellar explosion.

Researchers demonstrate how a gas escapes ice at an extremely cold temperature, providing insight about how stars form in interstellar clouds.

The new Japanese facility, to be ready by the year’s end, will be Asia’s first detector and the world’s first below ground

An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit Earth some 66 million years ago, causing a crater 180 km wide. The impact of the asteroid heated organic matter in rocks and ejected it into the atmosphere, forming soot in the stratosphere.

Professor Kazuya Yoshida and HAKUTO members prepare for the final push to land a rover on the moon in the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge.

Dwarf galaxies and star-containing halos in a large spiral galaxy 25 million light-years away from Earth have been identified using a Japanese telescope in Hawaii.

An international research team has used the Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a Type Ia supernova not long after its explosion. They are the first to find solid evidence about what triggered the star to explode, which will contribute to a further understanding of supernova history and behavior.

A super-computer simulation by an international team of researchers has shown the formation of a rapidly growing star from supersonic gas streams in the early universe left over from the Big Bang. The star ends its life with catastrophic collapse to leave a black hole with a mass of 34,000 times that of the Sun.

An international team of researchers led by Kavli IPMU's Alexey Tolstov and Ken'ichi Nomoto have discovered a way to use UV light from superluminous supernovae to uncover its explosion mechanism, and used it to identify Gaia16apd as a shock-interacting supernova, reports a new study.

Kavli IPMU's Mark Hartz announces first indication of CP violation by neutrinos.

JAXA, Tohoku University and Hokkaido University have signed an agreement for microsatellites to be deployed from Kibo, the Japanese Experiment Module onboard the International Space Station(ISS).

A team led by researchers at NASA/JPL and Tohoku University has revealed images of Jupiter's atmosphere in mid infrared, taken by the Subaru 8-m telescope.

Speech by Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security, and Chairman of the National Research Foundation, at the Opening Ceremony of the Conference on 13 June 2017 at 1700 hrs, at the Marina Bay Sands L4, Simpor Junior Ballroom, Singapore

An international team of researchers is developing an instrument that will decode the light of the night sky to understand the nature of dark matter.