In 1998, during the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, NASA unknowingly captured a picture of ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

A mysterious object just tore through our Solar System leaving scientists and physics questioning an old following rare 2017 ...

We are now well into summer and from the earth spinning faster to migrating gulls and sunny skies - there is plenty to get excited about in July. | ITV News Channel ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

About the mission The 23 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...