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 ...

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.

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers at Keele University say these ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

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