The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled the existence of giant planets that defy current models of planetary formation, ...

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red ...

Scientists are developing PoET, a new EU-funded solar telescope, to overcome stellar noise hindering the search for ...

White dwarfs—the dense, fading cores left behind after stars like our sun die—are usually calm, cool, and ancient. Over ...

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

ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...