The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Give them a constellation prize. A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars faster than the average nebula. The ...

A team of astronomers using a Yale supercomputer have determined for the first time that galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than their counterparts in less dense regions of the ...

Space is big. That’s why we call it space. But how big is “big”? That’s relative. When an astronomer says something is nearby, they might mean it’s a few million kilometers away (if they’re talking ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled magnificent new images from its Euclid space telescope, representing the agency's first scientific discoveries from early observations. The project, which ...

A dramatic life-and-death game of planetary survival is taking place inside a gigantic cloud of gas and dust 1,500 light-years from Earth, and the outcome could have far-reaching implications for the ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...

Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that’s 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. “We thus show that Earth-size ...

Yet, the search for other potentially habitable worlds drives scientists to develop ever-smarter observational tools and innovative detection methods. Despite cataloguing over 6,000 exoplanets, ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact stellar ember – that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far. When you ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP/WISH) — For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star – and these new worlds could hold life. NASA made the announcement ...