Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...

By Chris WoolstonThe giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

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With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

The New Year begins with the nearly full Moon at perigee in the early afternoon. Two days later –– at full Moon –– Earth is at perihelion, its closest point to the Sun.

Last Friday evening I attended the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with my wife and two friends to listen to a ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared she is 'absolutely convinced' there are aliens out there ...