Every night, astronomers must carefully assess changing weather, the intensity of moonlight and shifting atmospheric conditions before deciding where to point a telescope. It's a constant balancing ...

Hubble data reveal a 500-million-year decline in Andromeda's star formation, with the steepest drop coming in just the last ...

Nasa's newest observatory isn't replacing the James Webb Space Telescope but expanding humanity's view of the cosmos.

The government has decided to pull funding for the Jodrell Bank Observatory to focus investment on projects that deliver long ...

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is recovering from an unexpected spin in orbit, and will need a little more time to rescue ...

At the center of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 sits an enormous galaxy shaped somewhere between an ellipse and a spiral. Its ...

Astronomers captured the clearest evidence yet that another star orbits Betelgeuse. The likely companion appears two to three times heavier than the Sun and may circle Betelgeuse about once every six ...

Scientists say exoplanet LHS 1140b shows promising signs that it could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for ...

Beta Pictoris is one of the most scrutinized star systems in the sky, a young sun ringed by a vast, dusty disk that ...

(NASA/Unsplash) The curious case of the solar system's missing silver has had scientists scratching their heads for years. Why do ancient meteorite fragments contain much more silver than the Sun, if ...

The Moon is starting to wane each night.

Scientists traced a mysterious surge of low-energy gamma rays from zinc-70 to magnetic changes occurring inside its nucleus.