Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus — are likely to align in the night sky by the end of January, according to ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most ... just what the heck is going on with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into the atmospheres ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

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

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

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...