The planet Mercury is the closest world to the Sun, and lies in a region of the solar system inhabited by rocks from comets that that never ...

Jupiter formed in a geologic blink. Its rocky core coalesced less than a million years after the beginning of our Solar System, scientists r...

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All times are given in UT ‘Universal Time’ Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson is visible in a pair of 10x50 binoculars, and can be found in the const...

One of the largest and most famous annual meteor showers may have taken a sinister turn, as the risk of the shower heralding a large asteroi...

Researchers just confirmed a theory originally proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago, and it’s something that even the famed phys...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Cosmologically speaking, the Milky Way and its immediate neighbourhood are in the boondocks. In a 2013 observational study,...

On 15 August 1977, the Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected a strong narrowband signal in the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr). T...

CHINA'S new space telescope to be launched soon will probe many mysteries of the universe, including the belching "big eaters"...

Many black holes and neutron stars are thought to be hidden in the Milky Way. Since they don't emit visible light, or are covered by dus...

Astronomers have found what looks to a fresh trove of supermassive black hole pairs, increasing the number of known pairs by about 50 percen...

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbule...

At one stage in its history rain storms on Mars were so heavy – and the raindrops so large – that they changed the planet’s surface, carving...

Humanity's first up-close look at Pluto was so intriguing that some researchers want to go back and spend a lot more time studying the i...

Exploring the celestial wonders above North Yorkshire is being made easier thanks to a £15,000 investment in a pop-up planetarium and two po...

Aurora hunters were treated to an unusually intense and widespread display of the Southern Lights over the weekend, and it's not over y...

Brown University researchers have published the most detailed geological history to date for a region of Mars known as Northeast Syrtis Majo...

The University’s McDonald Observatory in West Texas dedicated its $40 million telescope upgrade last week and is now performing an in-depth ...

Radar images of asteroid 2014 JO25 were obtained in the early morning hours on Tuesday, with NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the ...

For hundreds of years there have been reports of people hearing the sound of meteors—shooting stars—as they streak across the sky. As early ...

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SA project office has acquired half of the land it needs to create a radio-quiet zone around the large radi...

Despite having been told he would not make it past his 25th birthday, now 75-year-old renowned cosmologist and science author Stephen Hawki...