NASA’s DART spacecraft has completed the first planetary defense test, after it impacted the asteroid Dimorphos while traveling 14,000 miles per hour. Confirmation came seconds after the…

When you look up at the stars in the night sky, consider this: on average, every star you see has at least one planet in orbit around…

Astronomers have discovered a new kind of stellar explosion, called a micronova. But don’t be deceived by its seemingly diminutive name – these are actually colossal stellar…

Uranus reaches opposition on 9 November, and while oppositions of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are something to really shout about, in the case of the ice giant, a little…

Everyone loves black holes, especially when they’re doing classic black hole things like ripping stars apart and consuming them whole. The authors of this month’s paper, led by…

A group of scientists from around the world, with Professor Sasha Hinkley from the University of Exeter leading the team, have recently discovered a new exoplanet known…

Collіѕіonѕ between moonѕ аnd рlаnetѕ mаy be а regulаr dаnger for рoѕѕіble extrаterreѕtrіаl lіfe Alien planets may collide with their own moons regularly, a new simulation suggests….

A decent-sized asteroid, the 1,100-foot-wide Apophis, will pass so close to Earth it’ll be visible in the sky from certain places. Crucially, the giant rock will not strike…

Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers are searching for signs of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Nearly…