A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

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

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

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

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

Reports are rife that Saudi Arabia are preparing a world-record package to tempt Vinicius Jr from Madrid to the Middle East.

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from ...