A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Chick-fil-A is working with microgrid developer SolMicroGrid to pilot solar and battery storage microgrids at its restaurants ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

A collaborative team of researchers from Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London has achieved a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured four of them in the stellar system HR ...