Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

The outline of a nebula bat formed from glowing interstellar clouds | Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Astronomers have captured the glowing "wings" of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, ...

Deep under the Mediterranean, scientists have recorded the highest-energy neutrino ever detected. Now they are working out what this elusive particle could reveal about the universe we live in. By ...

A new imaging system could help us see deeper into the universe than ever before. The same powerful technology could also ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...