Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Scientists observing the Centaurus galaxy cluster made an exciting breakthrough by discovering powerful streams of hot gas ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

Saturn has cemented its status as the planet with the most moons, leaving Jupiter trailing behind. Astronomers have confirmed ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

A supercluster is usually composed of hundreds or even thousands of clusters of galaxies, and these clusters are ...

Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf too faint to see without a telescope, hosts four newly discovered planets detected by instruments on large telescopes. The planets' gravitational pull causes the star to ...

NASA, alongside SpaceX, is making strides with a crucial crew-swap mission to the International Space Station, marking a ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...