Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

We see at most 3% of the universe,” said Pamela Gay of the Planetary Science Institute, citing a mind-boggling constraint ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

STEPHANIE BUTTIGIEG is a young Maltese student who is currently an astronomy PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, with her PhD research focusing on supermassive black holes. The Malta ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system ... s life elsewhere in the galaxy, even in the universe—we’re gonna understand ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest objects ever detected in space. The arc was discovered near the galaxy cluster ...