Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Astronomers have discovered a new object that originated outside of our Solar System — only the third to be found.

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.Scientists have ...

Astronomers describe Mercury as an "inferior planet", because its orbital path around the sun is much closer than that of ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...