The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve. Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...

The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...