Within the constellation of Hercules, 230 million light years away, a fierce and drawn-out battle is finally coming to an end. A pair of c...
To glimpse a meteor shower, sometimes you've got to wake up in the middle of the night, bundle up against frigid cold, and wait many m...
Planet 9 probably isn't from another star, according to researchers from the UK and Switzerland. According to a paper on the Cornell...
Some 150 million light-years away, a bizarre galaxy surrounded by swirling, cloud-like tendrils has provided an ongoing mystery for scienti...
On 20 May 2015, the US military launched the robotic X-37B space plane into Earth’s orbit to carry out its fourth top secret mission. N...
A 30,800-kilogram meteorite has been unearthed in Argentina over the weekend , and experts have declared it to be one of the largest met...
The beautiful gullies we see on Mars today probably aren't being formed by flowing water, NASA has announced. Until now, liquid water...
While we sit here on Earth looking up in wonder at how awesome our star, the Sun, is, astronomers have just found a stable planet inside a ...
When researchers talk about planets and moons forming, it’s usually an event that took place billions and billions of years ago - a timefra...
Astronomers have discovered the fastest ultraviolet winds ever recorded in the Universe, swirling around a supermassive black hole at speed...
A lot of focus over the past 12 months has been on NASA's journey to Mars. But a group of space experts, including leading NASA scienti...
On Monday and Tuesday this week, two comets will zip past Earth, with one of them coming closer to our planet than any comet since 1983. An...
