The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the young star HH 30 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, revealing ...

The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week – but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to ­deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater ...

In the darkness of the ocean depths, Chinese scientists are hoping to solve one of the enduring mysteries of the universe.

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The epic story of how a notice in a Chad newspaper article in 1969 led to the launch of a multi-million-pound planetarium, ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...