The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space telescopes are needed to shed light on the issue.

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

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

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...