Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

It’s not June without aliens from outer space, obsessed film directors and toxic marriages. At least, that’s how Hulu is ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

The upcoming Axiom Mission 4, also known as Ax-4, is the latest in a series of human spaceflights in partnership with both ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.