Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view.

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

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

Our solar system’s planets are set to align in a seven-strong planetary parade this week that will be visible in the UK night ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again.