Four proposed sun-gazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

There once was a dream of cities in space — vast cylindrical habitats, self-sufficient and populated by millions who would ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

Astronomers have recently made an extraordinary discovery that brings a new layer of complexity to our understanding of the ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden truth about the composition of space dust which helps to form planets and stars around ...

With such extraordinary potential for our international standing in astronomy, the cost of ESO membership seems like a ...

A Pakistan-born German astrobiologist has identified life-supporting organic molecules beneath the icy crust of Enceladus, ...

Intergovernmental organisation BRICS Plus will hold the BRICS Astronomy Meeting 2025 in São José dos Campos, Brazil, from October 13 to 17. The conference, under the theme ‘Multi-messenger and ...