A potential record-breaking exoplanet system, traveling at 1.2M mph, may be the first of its kind ever identified.

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of robotic systems, including spacecraft for ...

It is a cosmic phenomenon that elegantly showcases the warping of space-time, a consequence of gravity predicted over a ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

What a rock-block. An award-winning UK scientist warns that it might be too late to deflect the “city killer” asteroid that’s ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Planet-watching should only get better throughout the month. Venus, the planet of love, will shine brightest on Valentine's Day (February 14) and throughout the week. Saturn and Mercury will also make ...

This free, AI-powered smartphone tool, developed by an astronomy educator, is designed to make astrophotography easy and ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...