A "runaway star" rotating at breakneck speed has been spotted by an international team of astronomer...

As the number of discovered planets has grown, astronomers are finding that stellar mass does seem t...

Astronomers have been cataloguing star systems for three years to try to capture them as they meet t...

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

The findings provide the first solid detection of primitive, uncontaminated gas and support the long...

The observations show that Eris is an almost perfect twin of Pluto in size and appears to be covered...

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

The map of the moon's surface was constructed using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (L...

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