The James Webb Space Telescope is celebrating three years from its launch. Its discoveries have already changed our understanding of the early universe.
Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography. Here are the best photos of 2024 from the space station.
An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet.
There's a supermassive black hole lying in the centre of galaxy NGC 5084, and astronomers have discovered that the black hole appears to be tipped over on its side.
The plot has just thickened in the mystery tale about the unseen mass skulking inside the largest cluster of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better understand why the Sun's outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface.
It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes: the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially being changed, continuing its shift away from Canada and towards Siberia.
A strange star has revealed to astronomers a mysterious past - one that involves the merger of two ancient suns.
New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs.
Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut down star formation.
The research suggests that the thick crust of Mars' southern highlands formed billions of years ago generated granitic magmas and sustained vast underground aquifers.
An extreme heating event may have interfered with scientists' attempts to figure out the Moon's age by dating lunar rock samples.
The discovery helps explain a long-running cosmic mystery about why some stars hurtle through space much faster than others.
Saturn’s icy rings could be much older than they appear due to their resistance to pollution from impacts with rocky debris.
Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in Nature.
