A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear together in a row throughout the start of February – although Neptune and Uranus will only be visible with binoculars or a telescope.

The cosmic glories of the night sky above the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks will be celebrated during ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large ...

The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

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.

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

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

The fastest wind ever measured in our solar system was on Neptune, with gusts of more than 1,100 miles per hour. But those ...