Families looking for a fun and educational half-term activity can visit the Greenwich Planetarium throughout the school holidays.

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

Mapping the distribution of matter in the universe is an important quest for cosmology and astrophysics. There is a battle ...

While most of them pass by Earth harmlessly, their size and speed make them worth tracking. NASA has detected an asteroid, ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.