Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

On September 21, 2025, a partial solar eclipse will grace the skies, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia and parts of the Pacifi ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a rare cosmic meal: a white dwarf star consuming pieces of a ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

An international team of astronomers says it has discovered supermassive, dust-shrouded black holes in seven galaxies, using a combination of telescopes on the Earth and in space.

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

On September 19, the waning crescent moon will rise with Venus and Regulus, while parts of the world see a rare occultation.

The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our Solar System.

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...