Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton ... but could even be the tip of the iceberg before planets themselves are detected near the black ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

"Super puff planets are fairly rare ... figure out just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres of the puffy transiting ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...