Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come ...

Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled first images: millions of galaxies captured in just 10 hours of observation.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.” Even if I was the guy with the broom, I’d ...

The first pictures released show 10 million galaxies. It's a small start, just 0.05 percent of the overall mission to map out ...