Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Years ago, three big star parties dominated plans for astronomy enthusiasts in the United States. They were Stellafane, ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

The prosecution and the defence in the case against Sean "Diddy" Combs have concluded their cases, with the hip-hop mogul's ...