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.

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

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

"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 ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

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

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

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...