Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large Telescope. Other times, they come up with unique sounding names, like quasars ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...