How does a compass work in space? From the moon to Venus, here’s how a compass would work beyond Earth’s magnetic field.

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

Artist's concept of light flares along Sag A*'s accretion disk. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) ...

Blanco Telescope and the Yale 1m telescope, part of the multinational Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System ... a self-portrait with the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, I ...

There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Around a star 880 light-years from Earth orbits one of the wildest, most extreme exoplanets we've found to date.

A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially record-breaking fast planetary system, with a star and possible exoplanet moving at ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?