Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, a team of Japanese astronomers has peered back through t...

Astronomers claim to have found evidence which suggests that the solar system might have a fifth gia...

A team of amateur astronomers has spotted an asteroid coming close enough to Earth to pose an "impac...

Researchers have detected pulses of gamma rays with energies exceeding 100 billion electron-volts (1...

A Jupiter-sized distant planet darker than the blackest coal has caught the attention of astronomers...

The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, fe...

Astronomers have found that giant black holes in the centre of galaxies are on average spinning fast...

A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 p...

Qatar-1b is a gas giant 20 percent larger than Jupiter in diameter and 10 percent more massive....