The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

The flares may heat up and inflate the planet's atmosphere, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Being lashed by these ...

Russia has fired a record 728 drones at Ukraine, hours after US President Donald Trump aimed unusually sharp criticism at Russia's president.

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

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.

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...