Researchers have spotted the first signs of an 'exomoon' - a moon orbiting a planet that lies outsid...

Astronomers have found a dwarf planet in the depths of space well past Pluto, a discovery that sugge...

In a breakthrough, astronomers have found the first direct evidence of Big Bang by imaging the gravi...

A Spanish astronomer has witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smashing into the Moon, in the biggest lu...

Astronomers have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billi...

Astronomers have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies, hiding inside an enormous blob o...

Astronomers have detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when t...

The new findings suggest rocky planets may be even more common in the universe than previously thoug...

Astronomers have discovered a new 'super-Jupiter' planet, 13 times bigger than Jupiter, the largest ...