Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Cosmic forensic experts are reconstructing the magnetic field around an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Our solar system’s planets are set to align in a seven-strong planetary parade this week that will be visible in the UK night ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

Chinese defence agency recruits space researchers following discovery of large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

Christos Papadopoulos’s ‘Larsen C’ took the inaugural £40k Rose Prize in a busy week for London’s Sadler’s Wells ...

Tonight starts a great week of star gazing. Here's when to watch the full moon next to Venus, and a rare planetary parade ...

Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...