"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never ...

Astronomy and space sciences have mostly avoided the fraudulent practices of paper mills and predatory journals, but that ...

New Hubble Telescope imagery of the interstellar interloper comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a dusty coma and the beginning of a tail.

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has ...

The techniques used to target the asteroids could also be employed in tracking hazardous asteroids and interstellar objects.

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic ...

The image reveals over 2,500 galaxies, many of which are seen as they were during the first billion years of cosmic history.

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong ...

Angela Rayner's officials step in after agency at heart of Labour's housing plan apologises for 'failings' in digital scheme ...

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in important elements and water.