Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

Two of Earth's largest mass extinction events were likely triggered by the fallout from two supernovae in nearby space. This ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The world’s largest digital camera ever made has now been installed and could start photographing the galaxy as early as next ...

A supercluster is usually composed of hundreds or even thousands of clusters of galaxies, and these clusters are ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.View on ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.