Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

WASP-127b is located in our Milky Way galaxy, around 500 light years from Earth. At just over 20,000 mph, experts say the winds are the fastest of their kind on any known planet. WASP-127b's diameter ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...

Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus — are likely to align in the night sky by the end of January, according to ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...