April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Big Bang, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy ever seen using the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...

Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A stunning new photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy has unveiled the vast, glowing gases that surround this majestic spiral ...

Study uses computer model to predict existence of habitable zones in white dwarf star systems A research team led by the ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way galaxy alone hosts hundreds ...

Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...