A plan to build the biggest land-based optical telescope in the world has cleared an important hurdl...

The images were photographed by a charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera on Chang'e-2 from the he...

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

Asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus a...

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

The two countries have signed an agreement on a series of steps to resolve maritime disputes over pa...

European astronomers have announced the discovery of about 50 new planets outside our Solar System; ...

The VISTA infrared survey telescope has discovered as many as 96 new open star clusters hidden by th...

The VLT Survey Telescope has captured a magnificent image of three bright interacting galaxies in th...