We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...