An asteroid could wipe out humanity, but it's unlikely. Near-misses are more common than impacts, though planetary defence is ...

The best telescopes for seeing planets can help you spot Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Mercury. Black Friday is this week so keep an eye out for deals too! When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The planetarium turns 100 this year. What came before the giant domes, with imagery of galaxies, asteroids and meteors ...

Stars like our Sun have around the same overall density as water. But when a star collapses in its old age, and its material gets compressed by runaway gravity, the result is a brilliant white sphere ...

I have to confess, despite spending years gazing at the night sky, telescope at the ready, tracking planets and hunting for ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

From loose-boweled whales in Tonga to the deafening call of the Weddell seal, Kiwi cameraman Andrew Penniket has had plenty ...

Longshot Space wants to build a 6-mile-long (10-km) space cannon to shoot several-ton objects into low Earth orbit (LEO). The ...

You’ve got a great chance to see the planet George this week in our skies, as it has a very close celestial hug with the best ...

Scientists have announced they have found a "freckle" on the Moon. Researchers at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ...