A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

"Super puff planets are fairly rare ... figure out just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres of the puffy transiting ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet ...