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

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

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

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

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust ...

The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, ...

The World Awards were founded in the belief that we can all make small efforts to shape the future of our planet in a ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...