Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet, Barnard b, located just six light-years away. Classified as a 'sub-Earth,' it ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across ... four surviving terrestrial (rocky) inner planets. The largest celestial bodies in our ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

One wiggly Red Planet could be the evidence we needed. One theory surrounding dark matter is that it isn’t an exotic particle at all, but instead a collection of primordial black holes formed during ...

Sharpen your eye and build your knowledge of clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and more with this list of popular objects for ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet about half the size of Venus orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our ...

Mars and the Moon are the only two places Prof Cox could imagine seeing anybody visit and begin to build a permanent presence ...

This means that we now have a spacecraft that can take unprecedented images of the Universe, unpolluted by the light of the Sun glancing off the interplanetary dust scattered throughout the Solar ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...