Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

A new study led by a Georgia State University astronomy graduate student is a major step forward in the search for stars that ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

Astronomers have spotted an Earth-sized planet drifting alone through the Milky Way, detected briefly by bent starlight, ...

Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large ...

A NEWLY discovered rogue planet without a host star like the sun to orbit around has been detected dashing through space on ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

It spins fast, is 300 times more luminous than the sun and is four times the mass of the sun. Here is everything to know about Regulus.

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...